The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost
Caribbean writers of the 20th century. Twice imprisoned by the
colonial government of British Guiana during the Emergency in the
1950s, he became a minister in Guyana's first independent
government during the 60s, representing his country at the United
Nations, but resigned in disillusionment after three years to live
'simply as a poet, remaining with the people'. He was one of the
first Caribbean poets to write about slavery, Amerindian history
and Indian Indentureship in relation to contemporary concerns.
Wise, angry and hopeful, Carter's poetry voices a life lived in
times of public and private crisis. Gemma Robinson's helpfully
annotated edition is the first Collected Poems of Martin Carter.
The selected prose includes key essays on race, colonialism,
political action and the role of the poet in a postcolonial
society.
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