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Martinique poet Aimé Césaire in 2003. Caribbean poetry is vast and rapidly evolving field of poetry written by people from the Caribbean region and the diaspora.. Caribbean poetry generally refers to a myriad of poetic forms, spanning epic, lyrical verse, prose poems, dramatic poetry and oral poetry, composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language.
Over the decades the canon has shifted and expanded, drawing both on oral and literary traditions and including more women poets and politically charged works. Caribbean writers, performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters have created a popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. Caribbean oral poetry shares ...
Caribbean women writers (19 C, 8 P) A. Anguillan writers (1 C, 2 P) Antigua and Barbuda writers (3 C, 6 P) Aruban writers (4 C, 6 P) B. Bahamian writers (5 C, 6 P)
Donna Hemans, author of "Tea By the Sea" ushers in Caribbean Heritage month with five timely books that reveal the depth and variety of this region’s writers.
Mercy Ward (1992) – collection of poems published by Peterloo Poets, UK, ISBN 978-0905291956. [13] Republished as Guyana Classics series, Caribbean Press, December 2010. Essequibo (1992) – collection of poems published by Peterloo Poets, UK, and Story Line Press, US (winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature 1992), ISBN 9781871471342. [14]
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.
Listen up, bookworms. Grace Wales Bonner has gone back to college, and cracked open her poetry books, for a collection inspired by Caribbean thought and intellectualism, expat students in Britain ...
This is a list of Jamaican writers, including writers either from or associated with Jamaica This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .