The Language of Eldorado - Softcover

Mark McWatt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845234022 ISBN 13: 9781845234027

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2017

Synopsis

Winner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete images that work on the reader both sensually and intellectually. Its focus is the relationship between language, landscape and the history of human settlement in Guyana. The collection is dedicated to Wilson Harris whose challenging and paradigm-changing ideas on these matters deeply influenced Mark McWatt s own thinking.

First published by Dangeroo Press in 1994, this collection, McWatt s second, has been recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry and winner of the Guyana Prize. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete images that work on the reader both sensually and intellectually. Its focus is the relationship between language, landscape and the history of human settlement in Guyana.

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About the Author

Mark McWatt is the recently retired Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill. He has published two collections of poetry, Interiors (1989) and The Language of Eldorado (1994) which won the Guyana Prize. McWatt has published widely in journals on aspects of Caribbean literature and is joint editor of the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse(2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845234022
• ISBN 13: 9781845234027
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 80