Identity area
Reference code
BXB/1/2/HIN
Title
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
Date(s)
- 1989 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
3 boxes, 10 items
Context area
Name of creator
(1978-)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain is a 1989 poetry anthology edited by E. A. Markham. In a long introductory essay Markham writes I wanted in this to identify and celebrate a broad range of aesthetic experience — those verbal, intellectual and musical constructs that both trap and release aspects of our particular history, geography, racial and social tension [...]. The book contains biographies and prose writing by and about the poets.