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Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947) [1] is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies.
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] ...
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.
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.
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Mervyn Eustace Morris OM (born 21 February 1937) [1] is a poet, writer, editor and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.His poetry is well respected throughout the Caribbean, which has consistently ranked him among the top West Indian poets.
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.
Jamaica Labrish is a poetry compilation written by Louise Bennett-Coverley.The 1966 version published by Sangsters is 244 pages long with an introduction by Rex Nettleford and includes a four-page glossary, as the poems are written mainly in Jamaican Patois.