The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Stewart Brown & Mark McWatt
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Stewart Brown & Mark McWatt
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Description
The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry in the twentieth century, and this anthology covers all its major languages. Featuring a range of poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, and Olive Senior to Una Marson, this is a rich and satisfying book.
Review from previous edition 'a wonderful beginner's guide to the amazing riches of caribbean poetry. The editors provide an excellent, comprehensive introduction.'
Stewart Brown is a poet and critic who teaches African and Caribbean literature at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He worked as a teacher in Jamaica in the early 1970s, lectured at Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria in the 1980s, and later taught at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has edited several anthologies of Caribbean writing and published many books and essays on aspects of West Indian culture. Mark McWatt is a Guyanese poet and critic who taught for some time at universities in Canade and the UK, and is now Professor of West Indian Literature in the Department of English at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has published many books and essays on aspects of Caribbean literature, with a particular interest in Guyanese writers. He is editor of The Journal of West Indian Literature and edited, with Hazel Simmonds, the anthology for Caribbean schools A World of Poetry. His own poetry is widely published and anthologized, and his collection The Language of Eldorado won the prestigious Guyana Prize for Poetry in 1994.
Review from previous edition 'a wonderful beginner's guide to the amazing riches of caribbean poetry. The editors provide an excellent, comprehensive introduction.'
Stewart Brown is a poet and critic who teaches African and Caribbean literature at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He worked as a teacher in Jamaica in the early 1970s, lectured at Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria in the 1980s, and later taught at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has edited several anthologies of Caribbean writing and published many books and essays on aspects of West Indian culture. Mark McWatt is a Guyanese poet and critic who taught for some time at universities in Canade and the UK, and is now Professor of West Indian Literature in the Department of English at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has published many books and essays on aspects of Caribbean literature, with a particular interest in Guyanese writers. He is editor of The Journal of West Indian Literature and edited, with Hazel Simmonds, the anthology for Caribbean schools A World of Poetry. His own poetry is widely published and anthologized, and his collection The Language of Eldorado won the prestigious Guyana Prize for Poetry in 1994.