Book description
Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets,
newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular
art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same
time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of
the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and
many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the
vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are
represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from
its roots to the present. Paula Burnett was born in 1942 in
Chelmsford, and was educated at Oxford University. She is the author of
Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics, among many other publications. Her
most recent book presents her international research project to promote
minority literatures, produced in collaboration with universities in
Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain. She teaches postcolonial literature
and creative writing at Brunel University, London.
