Book Outline Timescape and Other Caribbean Poems |
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Timescape and Other Caribbean Poems was written by two Caribbean poets. Lance Bannister hails from Barbados and Marcia Harold Hinds hails originally from St. Vincent and the Grenadines but has lived and worked in Barbados for many years. Even though their styles are different, the two poets complement each other beautifully. The reader is bound to find something here of interest and pleasure. |
Lance Bannister was born in Barbados and received his secondary education at Harrison College, Barbados. After obtaining his degree in Classics from the University of Durham, England, he taught at Harrison College, Combermere School and Parry School for a number of years. He then entered the University of the West Indies to read for a degree in Medicine and was one of the first students of the university. After a clerkship at the Kingston Public and Jubilee Hospitals in Jamaica, he returned to Barbados as a Parochial Medical Officer and also set up a private medical practice. His hobbies include metal sculpture specializing in old car parts and found material. He has published, with the aid of Eva Best, a volume entitled "Moonlight Songs of Barbados". Marcia Harold Hinds was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She attended the Kingstown Preparatory School and the Girls' High School. She gained a B.A. (Hons.) in Geography from the University of Waterloo, Canada and has a Masters Degree in Education from Michigan State University. She has been interested in writing from her earliest years and has two books in print: "Saga of Hairoun" (an epic poem celebrating the history of the Caribs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines) and "Lovescape: Roses and Thorns". She has also written and produced a choral work titled "Cyprian Rejoice" that celebrated the 100th anniversary of St. Cyprian's Church, Barbados. Published by KINGS-SVG Box 2713, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Box 702, Madison, NJ 07940 |
CONTENTS PART A TIMESCAPE 7 1. Sculptor Time ..9 2. Bus Driver Time . 10 3. Refine Time .11 4. Shopkeeper Time 12 5. Bogeyman Time 14 6. Schoolmaster Time . 15 7. Old Bridge-Player Time ..16 8. Bird On the Wing Time 19 9. Clocks ...20 10. Timescape 22 11. Evening Garden ..23 ALL SEEING EYE 26 12. Philosophy ...27 13. Kamau ...30 14. The Dump .33 15. T.V.Holic 34 16. Identity Crisis .35 17. Perverse Generation 36 18. Equus 37 19. The Tree ..39 20. Village .40 21. Banjoman .41 22. Barbados Day 43 23. Baxter Road Awakes 47 24. Baxter Road 48 25. Baxter Road 2 49 26. Baxter's Road A La Carte 50 27. Cries of the Marketplace 51 28. Rufus the Cock 52 29. Circe 54 30. Cole's Cave 55 31. Bush Doctors 56 32. Saturday Night 57 33. Brittons Hill Cave-In 58 34. Moonlight and Morning 59 35. Speightstown 1 60 36. Speightstown 2 ..61 PART B - POETRY AS COMPANY 63 37. Evening Themes 65 38. I Write not Bitter, Biting Ryhme 67 39. Dew at Dawn ..68 40. Bush Fire .69 41. Idle 71 42. The Walk .72 43. On Looking at a Coral Reef .74 44. The Actor's Lament .75 45. Cup of Bitterness 76 46. Five Frigate Firms 77 47. The Moon 78 48. Where I Stood ..79 49. The Old Maids and the Bachelor Buttons 80 50. Lamentations 81 51. Manhattan Lullaby .83 52. Innocence ..84 53. Look at Me Boy-Chlie 85 54. The Descendants 86 55. The West .87 56. The Slum 88 57. Exit .89 58. The Empty Church ...90 59. If I Were .91 60. Hairoun, Hairoun 92 61. On Looking into a Pair of Hazel Eyes 93 62. To Night 94 63. The Mug 95 64. Last Day, 1980 .97 65. Untitled ...99 66. Bird of the High Sky 100 67. Drought 102 68. Hairoun Under Sudden Flood ...104 69. Hairoun Genesis .105 70. A Woman of Malicious Wit 106 71. Cricket 107 72. Caught Between Two Titans .108 73. Ask ..110 |
