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Smith's poetry was published in regional journals and literary magazines in the 1950s and 1960s and has been widely anthologized. It has been noted: "He often decorates his work with classical references and titles, although his subjects are usually West Indian." [1] His patriotic poem "I Saw My Land in the Morning" [7] has also been set to ...
The works in At the Bottom of the River are usually denoted as prose poems by critics. [3] “Girl,” [1] is the first story in the collection. It was originally released on June 26, 1978, in The New Yorker [3] and examines the struggles of growing up young and female on a post-colonial poor Caribbean island. “Girl” is a series of ...
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.
Wong's poetry also won three prizes in the 1976 Jamaica Literary Festival. [1] [4] His profile was further raised when he was allowed out of prison for a poetry reading at the Tom Redcam Library in 1977. Also in 1977, several of his poems were published in Jamaica's national newspapers, including the Daily Gleaner and Jamaica Daily News.
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.
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]
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.
[1] [5] [6] He began writing stories and poems while still at school. [2] During the Second World War, as a teenager, he went to work for six years (1942–48) in the United States, working in New Orleans, [6] before returning to Jamaica. In his own words: "America had run into a shortage of farm labourers and was recruiting workers from Jamaica.