Al Creighton

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Early movement in Guyanese poetry

Albion Wilds                   Dear Solitude!                   Where peace and concord dwell,                 Whose smiling beauties quell                 The soul’s inquietude.

Literature’s importance in Carifesta

A very significant factor in Carifesta is literature. A meaningful study of this regional cultural festival is a lengthy and complex undertaking that will require many revisits, including its treatment and representation of the region’s literature.

Members from the Guyana National School of Dance at Carifesta XIII in Barbados (DPI Photo)

Audiences scarce at Carifesta

Carifesta XIII is in progress in Barbados. This edition of the region’s premier festival of the arts has underlined a number of issues affecting the festival and a number of patterns that have formed, indicating trends that have developed.

 Roderick Walcott

The forgotten Walcott

There is a substantial body of work by a writer who was one of St Lucia’s most outstanding dramatists and who was quite dominant among West Indian playwrights throughout the 1960s into the 1970s. 

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Themes on emancipation

To Toussaint L’Ouverture TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men!       Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough      Within thy hearing, or thy head be now               Pillowed in some deep dungeon’s earless den;—               O miserable Chieftain!

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