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“... expect very little from books with titles like The Fortunate Traveller (Derek Walcott), Sun Poem (Edward KamauBrathwaite), Aegean Islands (Bernard Spencer) and Sun the First (Odysseus Elytis). Walcott confronts this prejudice in his new volume. Dividing his poems into those set in exile in the ‘North’ (the United ...”

“... as his ‘Homecoming’ once put it – an ‘Afro-Greek’, a ‘tourist’ in his own territory. Edward KamauBrathwaite would translate the Odyssean myth into a quest back to Africa, lost along the slave routes. For him, ‘Homecoming’ is a state that starts from being languageless – we have no name to call us ...”

“... Their ideology, however, is a cultural version of it. Until recently, as the Barbadan poet Edward KamauBrathwaite says, West Indians ‘have been unable to afford the luxury of mythology’. Colonial history offers merely divisive images which can only provoke nostalgia, remorse, shame or rancour. Hence many ...”

“... younger contributors to James Berry’s anthology look to the tradition of the native Barbadian Edward KamauBrathwaite, not to that of the Trinidadian internationalist Derek Walcott, whose learned allusions – ‘as Ugolino did’, ‘that phrase of Traherne’s’, ‘those sheeted blighters, the ...”

“... to inject a dose of dialect into the Marxian dialectic, to borrow a phrase from the Bajan poet Edward KamauBrathwaite. World systems theory had stuck too closely to the traditional critique of political economy and inherited its disregard for culture. It had therefore failed to comprehend the peripheries in their ...”