A selection of poems written during forty years of teaching in Britain
the poems ask what we can do to prepare ourselves for a future that edges a little closer every day
three children meet amidst the decaying ruins and forge a friendship that will determine their destinies
But we begin with tributes to the great writer Tayeb Salih
Musings, Mazes, Muses, Margins Alice Oswald A selection of poems writtenThere is nothing quite like Gordon Rohlehrs Musings, Mazes, Muses, Margins in Caribbean writing; probably its nearest neighbours are Kamau Brathwaites The Zea Mexican Diary and Trenchtown Rock. Over a period of more than forty years, Rohlehr, supreme public critic of the post colonial Caribbean, its creative writing and the historian and deep analyser of calypso, has been paying quiet attention to his inner consciousness, a fictive journeying that has