Lara Rains & Colonial Rites

FERGUS, Howard

ISBN 10: 0948833955 / ISBN 13: 9780948833953

Published by Peepal Tree, U.K, 1998

About this Item

The authors fourth book of poems. / The poems in this volume show his range of interests extending from hurricanes to cricket, from South Africa to crime. Among Fergus s emerging heroes are Brian Lara, Nelson Mandela, and Maurice Bishop, but he also celebrates old teachers, family and friends. // This is a paperback in fine condition. (91 pages).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lara Rains & Colonial Rites
• Publisher: Peepal Tree, U.K
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948833955
• ISBN 13: 9780948833953
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • BLACK LITERATURE
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

Life on the volcanic island of Montserrat is the subject of these poems. Fergus finds a metaphor for Caribbean life and history in cricket and celebrates Brian Lara’s feats of 1994 which symbolically overturned the centuries of enslavement and colonialism.

From the Publisher

In Brian Lara's phenomenal achievements in 1994, Fergus finds a potent image for the complexities of the Caribbean's colonial heritage: cricket as the performance of a colonial rite and the triumphant overcoming of the former colonial master. Howard Fergus was born in Montserrat. He studied at the University College of the West Indies and the Universities of Bristol and Manchester. He has been Chief Education Officer and Speaker of the Legislative Council of Montserrat. He is currently resident tutor at the Extra-Mural Department of the UWI based there. He has written extensively on Montserrat and is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Cotton Rhymes (1976) Green Innocence (1978) and Stop the Carnival (1980).