George Campbell: First Poems (Caribbean Modern Classics) - Softcover

George Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184523149X ISBN 13: 9781845231491

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2012

Synopsis

George Campbell s poems began appearing in 1930s and blasted through the colonial Victorianism of current Jamaican poetry. Dubbed the poet of the revolution by Jamaica s founding political father, Norman Manley, Campbell was part of a distinguished group of artists including sculptor Edna Manley and novelists Roger Mais and VS Reid. He was the one Caribbean poet whom Derek Walcott acknowledged as an inspiration.

George Campbell wrote about the struggle for independence, such as the imprisonment of militants by the British colonial authorities; he wrote about the appalling social conditions that drove the Jamaican masses to revolt poverty, underemployment and squalid housing; he wrote about the rising consciousness of black Jamaicans, in their attempts to overcome centuries of oppression; he wrote out of a consciousness of history; he wrote about the hopes and consolations to be derived from religious faith, but a faith in which, for him, Jesus and Lenin were not incompatible icons. He also wrote about love, its ecstasies and bitter disappointments, and some of his very best poems are luminous celebrations of Jamaica s natural beauty.

About this title

About the Author:

George Campbell was a journalist and critic at the "Daily Gleaner" and "Public Opinion" in Jamaica. He was the cofounder of the literary magazine "Focus "and" "a consultant for the Institute of Jamaica and the People s National Party news archives."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184523149X
• ISBN 13: 9781845231491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180