New Caribbean Poetry

Author : Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136180811

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Teaching Caribbean Poetry by Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles Pdf

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Kei Miller
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069332180

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New Caribbean Poetry by Kei Miller Pdf

An anthology of Caribbean verse, edited by the young Jamaican poet Kei Miller.

Author : Georgie Horrell,Morag Styles,Aisha Spencer
Publisher : Third Millennium Information
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Children's poetry, Caribbean (English)
ISBN : 1909931004

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Give the Ball to the Poet by Georgie Horrell,Morag Styles,Aisha Spencer Pdf

"GIVE THE BALL TO THE POET is an exciting new anthology of Caribbean poetry aimed primarily at 11- to 16-year-olds but with great appeal for all ages. In its pages you will find many well-known and loved Caribbean poets, while also discovering lively new voices. With an emphasis on the music of Caribbean poetry as it is spoken, this collection ranges from the light-hearted and lyrical to the serious and thought- provoking. Jane Ray's ravishing illustrations complement the poetry and bring the Caribbean to life. A deep sense of place is never far away, with many poems evoking the beauty of the islands while not forgetting their harsh histories. Published in time for the Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, 2014), the anthology features some outstanding poetry on sporting themes; one of several works specially commissioned for the book is a tribute to Usain Bolt by Mervyn Morris. Give the Ball to the Poet distils the essence of a vibrant range of traditions in a celebration of human struggle, endeavour and achievement."--front cover flap.

Author : Peekash Press
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781617754388

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Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean by Peekash Press Pdf

Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes. With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the best, new, previously unpublished voices from the Caribbean. This is a generation that has absorbed Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Martin Carter, and Lorna Goodison, while finding its own distinctive voice. Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean. The debut title from Peekash, Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, was published in 2014. Kwame Dawes is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Duppy Conqueror, as well as two novels, numerous anthologies, and plays. He has won Pushcart prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2013 awardee of the Paul Engel Prize. At the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, he is a Chancellor’s Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. Dawes is the associate poetry editor at Peepal Tree Press, the series editor of the University of South Carolina Poetry Series, and the founding director of the African Poetry Book Fund. Dawes also teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program, and is the director of the biennial Calabash International Literary Festival.

Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813919460

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Talk Yuh Talk by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes Pdf

In the past 30 years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the US in the lyrics of reggae music, but that is only one aspect of a tradition characterized by continuing tension within a diverse heritage. Interviews in this collection reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from those poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae music and yard theater to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Dawes teaches English at the University of South Carolina. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ian McDonald,Stewart Brown
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0435988174

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The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry by Ian McDonald,Stewart Brown Pdf

This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.

Author : Derrilyn E. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443884143

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Making History Happen by Derrilyn E. Morrison Pdf

Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America examines Lorna Goodison’s Turn Thanks (1999), McCallum’s The Water Between Us (1999), and Claudia Rankine’s Plot (2001) and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Engaging familiar themes and issues of time, language, and identity, the readings focus on “Signifying” moments in the works of the poets under discussion. Reflecting on some of the ways that transnational women poets of the black diaspora are using tropes of mobility to create a renewed sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a communal network, the readings also demonstrate that the project of re-writing individual self-identity in light of one’s expanding consciousness or awareness of the “other” is more urgent, and more demandingly realistic, in contemporary poetry written by women poets who occupy transnational spaces. In these works, re-memory becomes a process that transforms, the gathering of memory reflecting the interrelatedness of communal and individual subjective identities. Rankine’s poetry collections are used to close the discourse in this book, for the call they make. An intriguing crossing of genres, their structural use of time and space reflects the stylistic inventiveness that has become a hallmark of transnational poets of the black diaspora. In its transformation of language, and of images that remain open-ended in their meanings, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely fuses poetry, dialogue, and prose with images from television and other forms of communication media to create a poetic collection that is relentless in its confrontation with the way we make cultural meanings. The collection of essays in this book calls attention to an emerging poetic body of Caribbean writing in America that requires naming, for it is new.

Author : Stewart Brown,Mark A. McWatt
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0199561591

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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse by Stewart Brown,Mark A. McWatt Pdf

The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.

Author : Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136180828

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Teaching Caribbean Poetry by Beverley Bryan,Morag Styles Pdf

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Denise deCaires Narain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134601820

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Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry by Denise deCaires Narain Pdf

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

Author : Olive Senior
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800172168

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Hurricane Watch:New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Pdf

The latest collection from Olive Senior, Jamaican Poet Laureate, collects her four books of poetry alongside new work written during the pandemic.

Author : Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher : London : New Beacon Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011258145

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History of the Voice by Kamau Brathwaite Pdf

Author : Emily A. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313077432

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Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001 by Emily A. Williams Pdf

Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. The first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to the topic, this reference chronicles the development of Anglophone Caribbean poetry from 1970 through 2001. Included are nearly 900 entries for anthologies, reference works, conference proceedings, critical studies, interviews, and recorded works. The volume also includes a chronology, an overview of the development and significance of Caribbean poetry in English, and extensive indexes. In 1971 the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held a conference on West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies. This was the first assembly for the discussion of West Indian literature by West Indian people on West Indian soil. Since then, interest in Caribbean poetry written in English has grown dramatically. Caribbean poetry was influenced by the American Black Power movement during the 1970s, and women poets began to contribute their voices throughout the 1980s. Caribbean poets have, in turn, gained greater access to publishing outlets, resulting in a wider international readership and a corresponding increase in scholarly and critical studies. This book is the first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to Caribbean poetry written in English. The volume begins with the rise of interest in Anglophone Caribbean poetry in the 1970s and continues through 2001. Included are entries for nearly 900 anthologies, reference works, conference proceedings, critical studies, interviews, and recordings. The entries are grouped in chapters devoted to particular types of works. In addition, the volume includes a chronology, a discussion of the history of Anglophone Caribbean poetry, and extensive indexes.

Author : Roop Misir,Ram Jagessar,Ken Ramphal,Habeeb Alli,Harry Persaud,Naraine Datt,V. Phipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 146637943X

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Roraima by Roop Misir,Ram Jagessar,Ken Ramphal,Habeeb Alli,Harry Persaud,Naraine Datt,V. Phipps Pdf

Roraima is a relatively unknown mountain standing tall in the tropical jungle of South America, and it is a fitting title for this collection of poetry from emerging writers originating in the tropical nations of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This unique group of Caribbean born writers are part of a large immigrant community who came to Canada as adults and have made a new life in this country. Little has been written about their new lives, and even less has been written by them reflecting their point of view. This anthology hopes to address.some of that deficit The six sections of the anthology representing the six writers hopes to provide answers to the old questions about the Caribbean community in Canada. What are they thinking? How are they adapting to this new life? Are they happy or do they want to go back ? What do they think of this new homeland? Are they now Caribbean or Canadian or both or neither? There's a loaded six-gun of answers in the book and each bullet is different, as befits an anthology of emerging writers from any group or region. Each poet speaks in his own voice and you can find pieces that are lyrical, passionate, nostalgic, angry, regretful, and hopeful,. spiritual and humorous. If any or all of the poems help to shine some light on the the lives of today's Caribbean Canadians then the anthology will have served its purpose.

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Caribbean poetry (English)
ISBN : 0340573791

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Caribbean Poetry Now by Stewart Brown Pdf

The second edition of Brown's lively and well-received anthology offers an unparalleled selection of poetry from the region. It has been expanded to reflect new directions and developments in West Indian poetry.