Cyril everard palmer biography of michael jackson

  • A blogpost about the late Jamaican writer C. Everald Palmer whose books are still used in local schools.
  • Palmer's uncle is famous writer C. Everard Palmer, known for books such as The Wooing of Beppo Tate, A Cow Called Boy and My Father Sun Sun.
  • The poems of this Jamaican-born writer, now resident in Ni- geria, have a surreal quality that is quite distinctive among Caribbean writers.

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    Photo: Caribbean writers at Carifesta , Trinidad. L-R: Derek Walcott, Martin Carter, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Ernest Mootoosamy (Guadeloupe), Kamau Brathwaite.  Photo (c) by Sherwin Griffith.



    Caribbean writers at BIM Conference, Barbados, Carolyn Cooper, Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, Angela Barry, Dana Gilkes, Esther Phillips, Ramabai Espinet, George Lamming, Joanne Hillhouse, Pat Mohammed, Margaret Gill, Curdella Forbes.

    DISCOVERING WEST INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Compiled and selected by John Robert Lee

    DEDICATED TO PATRICIA CHARLES, SAINT LUCIA and REX NETTLEFORD, JAMAICA

    Contents:
    Introduction
    1. West Indian Authors &#; Prose writers, mainly novelists, with selected works listed.
    2. West Indian Authors &#; Poets, a Name Index.
    3. Selected Anthologies of West Indian Literature.
    4. West Indian Literary Journals.
    5. Readings on West Indian Literature in English.
    6. Readings on The Historical, Cultural and Social Background.


    Introduction

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    Critically acclaimed author Soraya Palmer working on sophmore effort

    Becoming a novelist was always on the cards for Soraya Palmer.

    Taking the reins fate afforded, the American-Caribbean creative departed her nine-to-five as a social worker after her fictional tome The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts enjoyed a smooth debut in March last year with rhapsodic critical acclaim and an enthralled readership.

    “At the time I was working with women who were criminalised for resisting abuse bygd their partners. I realised it was too overwhelming for me to juggle that kind of work full time while also following my creative pursuits. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to make writing a bigger part of my career,” reflected Palmer, who currently teaches writing at City College and at the Center for Fiction in New York.

    Her page yarn – whose plot line revolves around two sisters in a family coming apart at the seams interwo

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