Publisher's Synopsis
Substantial selections, with interviews and essays by the poets on their work, make this anthology the definitive textbook of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features large selections of work by 14 poets writing on both sides of the Atlantic: Derek Walcott, Martin Carter, Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite, Dennis Scott, James Berry, Mervyn Morris, E.A. Markham, Olive Senior, Grace Nichols, Lorna Goodison, Fred D'Aguiar, Michael Smith, Linton Kwesi Johnson. Hinterland has been an Open University set text, and taken up as a key syllabus title by many universities and colleges in Britain and the West Indies.
