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The Sag Harbor Corrector's lengthy review not only told how a reviewer felt about the poem but also described its structure: "It was reserved for Sterling to enshrine in poetry the cosmic process of nature and to send his mind forth to the farthest stars and get from them, if possible, some light as to the origin and destiny of the universe ...
Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican scholar and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject. After returning to Jamaica, he established a free school for free ...
Zephaniah wrote that he was strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he called "street politics", and he said in a 2005 interview: Well, for most of the early part of my life I thought poetry was an oral thing. We used to listen to tapes from Jamaica of Louise Bennett, who we think of as the queen of all dub poets. For me ...
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1][2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia ...
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.
Geoffrey Philp (born 1958) is a Jamaican poet, [1] novelist, and playwright. Philp used to reside in Jamaica, where he was born and attended Jamaica College, [2][3][4][5] but he relocated in 1979 to Miami, Florida. [6] He is the author of the novel Benjamin, My Son (2003), [7] and six poetry collections: Exodus and Other Poems (1990), Florida ...
Thomas MacDermot (26 June 1870 [1] – 8 October 1933) [2] was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for more than 20 years. He was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture". [3] He also published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam ...
A Collection of Poems 1941–1989. John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920 – 5 March 1999) was a Jamaican poet and educator. [1] He played a significant role in the development of Anglophone Caribbean literature both as a poet and an anthologist. He contributed to the development of the University College of the West Indies as an early ...