YARDROCK LIFESTYLE: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

YARD ROCK CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH IN APRIL!

HONORING: ANDREW SALKEY

“…the abundance of reality, and in some instances, real-life actuality, [are] lodged deep in the stories of the folk tradition…”²

~ Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends, Salkey, Andrew


Who is Andrew Salkey?

• Andrew Salkey was one of the leading figures of the first wave of post-war Caribbean writers who settled and worked in London.
• born Colon, Panama* 30 January 1928 of Jamaican parents who had migrated to work in Panama.
• A prolific writer, he practised all the genres - poetry, the novel, travel writing, children's stories, journalism, criticism and the short story (in the last of which he particularly excelled). His poetry - warm, vivid, romantic, suffused with the imagery of his beloved tropics

Works: 30 Titles including

1. A Quality of Violence 1959,
2. Stories from the Caribbean 1965,
3. Georgetown Journal 1972,
4. Jamaica 1973,
5. Anancy's Score 1973,
6. Danny Jones 1980

Career Achivements:

• Published his first novel - A Quality of Violence - in 1955 and quickly took his place at the centre of a small but outstanding circle of Caribbean writers and intellectuals.
• Won many awards including a Guggenheim & The Thomas Helmore Poetry Prize
  
• His collection of poems In The Hills Where The Dream Lives: Poems For Chile, was awarded the Casa de las Americas poetry prize in 1979.
• He was the key figure, the main presenter and writer-in-residence in the Caribbean section of the BBC World Service at Bush House
• His programmes became a glittering showcase for a generation of writers
• He was a key figure in the formation of the Caribbean Artists Movement
• Later, as a teacher of literature and creative writing at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, he was crowned by the Black Scholar's Award of Excellence in 1993

Buy Andrew Salkey's most popular work:
Ananacy's Score at www.amazon.com

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.independent.co.uk