Guest
Lorna Goodison is one of the Caribbean s most distinguished contemporary poets. Her work appears in
the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and her many honors include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including
Supplying Salt and Light,
Controlling the Silver,
Transcript
Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and one of the things I love about poetry is reading poetry from different parts of the world. So often, the so-called canon highlights poets, often male poets, from just one part of the world or just a few. But I wanted to read poems about the world that were written from the point of view of the people who lived through them, not just the people who were from the countries that colonized.
Florida
United-states
Jamaica
Ireland
United-kingdom
Spain
Spanish
Irish
British
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