Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain is a 1989 poetry anthology edited by E. A. Markham. In a long introductory essay Markham writes:
"I wanted in this to identify and celebrate a broad range of aesthetic experience — those verbal, intellectual and musical constructs that both trap and release aspects of our particular history, geography, racial and social tension [...]".
The book contains biographies and prose writing by and about the poets.
Poets included in Hinterland
- Louise Bennett
- Martin Carter
- Derek Walcott
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite
- Dennis Scott
- Mervyn Morris
- James Berry
- E. A. Markham
- Olive Senior
- Lorna Goodison
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Michael Smith
- Grace Nichols
- Fred D'Aguiar
See also
- 1989 in poetry
- 1989 in literature
- 20th century in literature
- 20th century in poetry
- Caribbean poetry
- English poetry
- List of poetry anthologies
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