The articles in Volume 1 are organized as follows: Caribbean society, culture, and the arts generally literature and society periodicals anglophone poetry, prose fiction, and non-fiction African and other literatures and the visual arts (Caribbean and beyond). The volume editor Gordon Collier has written a searching introductory essay on a central theme – here, a critical, comparative analysis of Walcott’s development as journalist against the historical background of press activity in the Caribbean, coupled with an illustrative discussion (drawing on Walcott’s newspaper articles) of his attitudes towards prose fiction and poetry. The volume closes with a selection of Walcott’s mis-cellaneous satirical essays.

The editors have examined the corpus of Walcott’s journalistic activity from its beginnings in 1950 to its peak in the early 1970s, and have made a generous selection of material from the Guardian, along with occasional pieces from such sources as Public Opinion (Kingston) and The Voice of St. These articles capture the vitality of Caribbean culture and shed additional light on the aesthetic preoccupations expressed in Walcott’s essays published in journals.

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