Cambridge meets the Caribbean
Accept it all with level sentences
with sculpted settlement that sets each stanza,
learn how the bright lawn sets up no defences against the egret's stabbing questions and the night's answer
From Derek Walcott (2010) ‘White Egrets’ in White Egrets. Faber
NEWS
Conference on 'The Power of Caribbean Poetry - Word and Sound' to be held in Cambridge 20–22 September 2012. Draft Programme and Online application here ...
Routledge to publish Handbook on Teaching Caribbean Poetry in 2013 ...
All praise to this initiative that aims to free poetry from its tag as 'boring subject’ and relocate it in the hearts and minds of teachers and students as a lifelong gift to be savoured and treasured. Olive Senior, poet
The Caribbean Poetry Project is a pioneering collaboration between Cambridge University Faculty of Education, the Centre for Commonwealth Education, and the University of West Indies at Mona (Jamaica), St Augustine (Trinidad) and at Cave Hill (Barbados).
Through a joint research and teaching programme, our three-year project will encourage engagement with Caribbean poetry, and improve the teaching and learning of poetry in both British and Caribbean schools.
| Sponsors & Partners | Advisors |
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John Agard Edward Baugh Kamau Brathwaite Mervyn Morris Andrew Motion Olive Senior Benjamin Zephaniah |