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“... late poems.In Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, his most celebrated poem (John Berger and Anna Bostock’s reissued translation omits the first three words of the title), Césaire is unsparing about Martinique. The Antillean islands are ‘pitted with smallpox’ and ‘dynamited by alcohol’. His home town is ‘inert’ and impoverished, his ...”

“... Patty’s concerned disapproval and Lewie’s slightly leering amusement, he is going to meet Emmy Bostock, also a teacher, who sings in the choir, and who after chapel, as noted ‘sport’, will go off with Gilbert, a no less noted ‘spooner’. In the darkness of the entry to the Coop yard, they will ‘spoon’ – a matter of spinning out with artistry ...”