Stewart Brown is a poet and critic who teaches African and
Caribbean literature at the Centre of West African Studies,
University of Birmingham. He worked as a teacher in Jamaica in the
early 1970s, lectured at Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria in the
1980s, and later taught at the University of the West Indies in
Barbados. He has edited several anthologies of Caribbean writing
and published many books and essays on aspects of West Indian
culture.
Mark McWatt is a Guyanese poet and critic who taught for some time
at universities in Canade and the UK, and is now Professor of West
Indian Literature in the Department of English at the University of
the West Indies in Barbados. He has published many books and essays
on aspects of Caribbean literature, with a particular interest in
Guyanese writers. He is editor of The Journal of West Indian
Literature and edited, with Hazel Simmonds, the anthology for
Caribbean schools A World
of Poetry. His own poetry is widely published and anthologized, and
his collection The Language of Eldorado won the prestigious Guyana
Prize for Poetry in 1994.
`Review from previous edition 'a wonderful beginner's guide to the
amazing riches of caribbean poetry. The editors provide an
excellent, comprehensive introduction.'
'
Bernadine Evaristo, The Guardian
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