Over the last few decades, Caribbean writers and performance artists have made a poetry revolution. Performance poets, dub and newspaper poets, singer-songwriters have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry head by audiences all over the world. This lively anthology traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.
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Paula Burnett was born in 1942 in Chelmsford, and was educated at Oxford University. From 1988 she worked as a journalist and since 1990 has been a lecturer in English at the West London Institute.
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Tink dere is a God in a top, No use me ill, Obissha! Me no horse, me no mare, me no mule, No use me ill, Obissha. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Tink dere is a God in a top, No use me ill, Obissha! Me no horse, me no mare, me no mule, No use me ill, Obissha. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mackey massa, hol your han, soh dem sey, hand sah, dis hand, oral section, dog shark, banana man, glory dead, vernacular poems, vernacular verse, right han, oral poets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Guinea Corn, Singing Glory, Trenchtown Rock, Brain Drain, Et'iopia Ian, Michael Smith, Long Mountain, Port of Spain, Mih Daddy, Miss Kate, Miss Mattie, Peel-head John Crow, Quaco Sam, African Cos, God Almighty, Port Royal, Praise God, South American New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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