Preface Mervyn Morris Introduction: Why Caribbean poetry? Beverley Bryan & Morag Styles 1. Poetry, Place and Environment: the scope of Caribbean poetry David Whitley 2. The Language of Caribbean poetry Aisha Spencer 3. Poetry and Caribbean Music Aisha Spencer with Sharon Phillip 4. Poetry of Oppression, Resistance and Liberation Georgie Horrell 5. Understanding, Approaching and Teaching Derek Walcott in Two Settings Velma Pollard & David Whitley 6. The Diaspora Consciousness: identity and exile in Caribbean British poetry Morag Styles & Beverley Bryan 7. Contemporary Caribbean Poetry Lorna Down 8. Teachers’ Voices Beverley Bryan with Georgie Horrell & Sandra Robinson 9. Teaching Caribbean Poetry Beverley Bryan with Morag Styles Appendix: Appendix: Further reading for Poetry of Oppression, Resistance and Liberation Georgie Horrell
Biography
Beverley Bryan is Professor of Language Education at the University of the West Indies’ Mona School of Education, Jamaica, and a past Head of Department and Director of the School of Education.
Morag Styles is Professor of Children’s Poetry at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, and a Fellow of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK.
