The Heinemann book of Caribbean poetry / selected by Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald.

Spine title: Caribbean poetry.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.

English girl eats her first mango ; By all means bless ; Pan recipe / John Agard (Guyana) -- Old talk, or West Indian history ; Getting there ; The carpenter's complaint / Edward Baugh (Jamaica) -- Home sickness ; Jamaica oman ; Love letter / Louise Bennett (Jamaica) -- It's me man ; Fantasy of an African boy ; Lucy's letter ; One / James Berry (Jamaica) -- Miss Own ; Xango ; Red rising ; Naima / Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) -- Dreamer ; Natural hight ; Lovin wasn easy / Jean Binta Breeze (Jamaica) -- Rilke ; Words ; Song for a tourist / Wayne Brown (Trinidad and Tobago) -- The dreamtime lives again ; Tiho, the Carib / Jan Carew (Guyana) -- Bitter wood ; A mouth is always muzzled ; After one year ; Childhood of a voice ; In a small city at dusk ; Bent ; Being always / Martin Carter (Guyana) -- Paradise ; How to organise a successful small business / Brian Chan (Guyana) -- Letters from home / Fausin Charles (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Soucouyant / LeRoy Clarke (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Because the dawn breaks ; Trapped / Merle Collins (Grenada) -- City blues / Christine Craig (Jamaica) -- The husband ; Dubious foreigner ; Patriot / Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana) -- Catching crabs ; Coolie mother ; Coolie son ; Miranda / David Dabydeen (Guyana) -- Mama Dot's treatise ; Airy Hall's exits ; The cow perseverance / Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana) -- Horses ; The growing tip ; Learner ; The leaf in his ear / Mahadai Das (Guyana) -- Mother Jackson murders the moon ; After the fall ; Tricks of the trade / Gloria Escoffery (Jamaica) -- Epitaph ; This tree my time keeper / John Figueroa (Jamaica) -- Lala : the dressmaker ; Aux Leon ... women / Honor Ford-Smith (Jamaica) -- Gasparillo remembered ; First Friday bell ; Little rosebud girl / Anson Gonzalez (Trinidad and Tobago).

Keith Jarrett, remembered ; Guinea woman ; Gleanings / Lorna Goodison (Jamaica) -- This is the place where ; One acre / Jan Goulbourne (Jamaica) -- The Misses Norman ; Funeral service / Cecil Gray (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Jamaican small gal ; Cirrhosis ; Where it's at / A.L. Hendriks (Jamaica) -- Revo lyric ; The air between us ; A Caribbean exorcism poem ; Reggae cat / Kendel Hippolyte (Saint Lucia) -- Origami ; The chord / Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson (Guyana) -- Body rites ; And in this carnival / Arnold H. Itwaru (Guyana) -- Granny in de market place ; Gifts ; And sea / Amryl Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Beacon of hope / Linton Kwesi Johnson (Jamaica) -- Soufri ere ; Week seven / E. McG. 'Shake' Keane (St. Vincent) -- Trinidad if ah let yu ; Wukhand / Paul Keens-Douglas (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Bajan ; The king / Anthony Kellman (Barbados) -- Clich es for an unfaithful husband ; Hymn ; Moments / Jane King (Saint Lucia) -- Lusca ; Vocation ; Mango / John Robert Lee (Saint Lucia) -- Don't talk to me about bread ; Herstory / E.A. Markham (Montserrat) -- Realaroo ; Come come / Marc Matthews (Guyana) -- Our revolutions must be different ; I expect an orchid / Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell (Trinidad and Tobago) -- The place they have to go ; The poison-maker ; Life/death / Ian McDonald (Guyana) -- Straight seeking ; Hello ungod ; Write through the night ; Olive / Anthony McNeil (Jamaica) -- A man in the house ; The boat builder ; Lady Northcote ; Stone / Mark McWatt (Guyana) -- Honor Maria ; Stonebridge Park Estate ; Homeland / Pauline Melville (Guyana) -- Preface / Ras Michael (Guyana) -- Koker ; Judgement day / Rooplall Monar (Guyana) -- Easy life ; Last lines ; Starapple tree / Pamela Mordecai (Jamaica) -- Pre-carnival party ; Pilate ; Joseph of Arimathaea ; Swimmer; Give t'anks ; The day my father died / Mervyn Morris (Jamaica).

I / Philip Nanton (St. Vincent) -- Wherever I hang ; Tropical death ; Sugar cane ; Epilogue ; Tapestry / Grace Nichols (Guyana) -- Rain storm / Sasenarine Persaud (Guyana) -- Belize suite ; Su Su / Velma Pollard (Jamaica) -- Judge Dreadword ; The bush ; Near mourning ground / Victor Questel (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Father ; When the Hindu woman sings calypso / Rajandaye Ramkissoon-Chen (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Inside ; Away ; A song for England / Andrew Salkey (Jamaica) -- Marrysong ; Apocalypse dub ; Dreadwalk ; Epitaph / Dennis Scott (Jamaica) -- Birdshooting season ; Searching for grandfather ; To the madwoman in my yard ; Hill country ; Children's Hospital / Olive Senior (Jamaica) -- Name poem ; To the family home awaiting repair ; Millionaire / A.J. Seymour (Guyana) -- Pig-sticking season ; Eating the elephant whole / Jonathan Small (Barbados) -- A go blow fire ; Black and white ; Dis-ya dutty ; Revolutionary / Michael Smith (Jamaica) -- He knows what height is / Ralph Thompson (Jamaica) -- 'Midsummer LIV' ; The season of phantasmal peace ; Elsewhere ; The Hotel Normandie pool / Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia) -- Biographical notes.

Features poetry by 61 contemporary poets throughout the Caribbean area including Derek Walcott, John Agard, Merle Collins, Kendel Hippolyte, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Martin Carter, and David Dabydeen.

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