Macmillan Caribbean Writers: Selected Poems Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is South America's equivalent of Robert Frost; a poet writing in a young country who, with an open heart and in clean, honest language, has set down its characters and events, its landscape, traditions and myths, for future generations to discover. This book offers selection of McDonald's poems.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Morley, Jon
- ISBN: 978-0-230-02871-5
- EAN: 9780230028715
- Produktnummer: 3838896
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.1 cm 134 g
- Gewicht: 134
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Born in St. Augustine, Trinidad, in 1933, Ian McDonald was educated at Queens Royal College, Port-of-Spain, and Cambridge University. Since 1955 he has lived in Guyana and worked in the sugar industry, recently retiring as CEO of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean. A tennis champion, he captained Cambridge and subsequently Guyana and the West Indies in the Davis Cup and played at Wimbledon. In 1984 he became editor of Kyk-Over-Al. He has edited, jointly with Jacqueline de Weever, The Collected Poems of A. J. Seymour and, jointly with Stewart Brown, Poems by Martin Carter. He was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature in 1992 and 2004 and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of the West Indies in 1997. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1970. He has published short stories, four poetry collections, and his play The Tramping Man is often staged. His award -winning novel The Humming-Bird Tree was first published in 1969; in 1992 it was made into a BBC film.
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