Poems by Martin Carter

by Stewart Brown, Ian MacDonald (Editor)

As a young socialist in the colony of British Guiana, Martin Carter wrote strong, vigorous poems that connect powerfully with the reader, that fire the spirit, are impossible to forget, and live on in the culture of the Caribbean. A committed freedom fighter for his people, Carter was known as the Poet of Resistance, and today is recognized as one of the great poets of the region, if not the world.

Genres: Poetry

109 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2006

About the author

Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK)[1] is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

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Reviews

[R.A. Bentinck · Rating 5 out of 5]

A revolutionary poet that inspires

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciate Carter's poems so much... having gone from completely disliking poetry..to loving such dynamic and defiant poetry... simply made me appreciate literature and broadened my narrow mind :) iLove Carter!

[for-much-deliberation ... · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Martin Carter's work, so I really enjoyed this one.
It chronicles some of his work from the 1950s through to the 1980s.
Some of these poems also appear in his "Selected Poems".

[Nicholas Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Less comprehension version of Carter's Selected Poems yet there is enough here to prove Carter as one of the great Caribbean poets...showcases his earlier socio-political works about the Bentham regime in British Guiana in the 1950's when Carter published 6 collections: The Hill of Fire Glows Red, The Hidden Man, The Kind Eagle, Returning, Poems of Resistance and Poems of Shape and Motion. Poems from these early selections have become staple in Caribbean high schools and colleges and are considered seminal in the characterization of an emerging nationalism. Poems like: "Do not stare at me", "Looking at your hands", "Listening to the land", "This is the dark time my love", "University of Hunger" and "I come from the nigger yard" are well known and anthologized. His later works, appearing in books like: Conversations, Jail Me Quickly, Poems of Succession and Poems of Affinity, reveal his maturity into a 'personal poet' though me did still touch on social and political issues affecting his people. Martin Carter is the quintessential Caribbean poet, in interests and style, who never in his life lived outside of Guyana and at one time was the information minister in Cheddi Jagan's government.