New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857549414 ISBN 13: 9781857549416

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

There is a greeting used in urban America, 'What's good?', which seems to go beyond a mere 'How are you?' or 'What's happening?' to demand an optimistic response. Perhaps, writes the young Jamaican poet Kei Miller in his introduction to "New Caribbean Poetry", there is a need for optimism when speaking of poetry and of the Caribbean, two entities that are frequently sidelined in all kinds of ways. This remarkable new anthology seeks to rectify both these oversights by showcasing new and newly established Caribbean poets from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere. So, 'what's good' in Caribbean poetry today? Miller offers eight impressive answers: Christian Campbell, Loretta Collins, Delores Gauntlett, Shara McCallum, Marilene Phipps, Jennifer Rahim, Tanya Shirley and Ian Strachan. Moving beyond the legacies of Scott, Walcott, Goodison and Braithwaite, these writers are forging a new and multifarious 'identity' for Caribbean poetry. There is a freshness to their voices which is nonetheless firmly rooted in poetic craft.

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Review:

'These captivating poets write from the heart with poems which range from the spare and haunting to the risky and experimental. There are surprises, there is beauty, there are pleasures to be discovered, there is much to be enjoyed.' - Bernardine Evaristo

About the Author:

Kei Miller is a young writer from Jamaica. He is been a visiting writer at York University in Canada and the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Caribbean Writer, Snow Monkey, Caribbean Beat and Obsydian III. His first collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, was published in early 2006 by Heaventree Press. Carcanet will publish his second collection in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1857549414
• ISBN 13: 9781857549416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Miller Kei