Mark McWatt
Mark McWatt | |
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Born | Guyana | 29 September 1947
Education | Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Casa de las Américas Prize |
Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947)[1] is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies.
Biography
McWatt was born in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position as a district officer. McWatt attended the
He was founding editor, in 1986, of the Journal of West Indian Literature
He co-edited the literature compilations Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse[6] and The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives.
McWatt has said his poetry was inspired first by the Guyana landscape, and how it can "at once alter and respond to interior states". His poems reflect his views of the natural world and the supernatural, including a vampire of Caribbean folklore ("Ol' Higue"), and of marriage and domesticity ("A Man in the House").[3]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Interiors - Dangaroo Press, 1989
- The Language of Eldorado - Dangaroo Press,1994 (ISBN 978-1-84523-402-7)
- The Journey to Le Repentir - ISBN 978-1-84523-081-4)
Fiction
- Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement - Peepal Tree Press, 2005 (ISBN 978-1-84523-001-2)
As editor
- The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse - 2005 (edited with Stewart Brown)
- The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives - edited by Mark McWatt, Lucy Evans, and Emma Smith; Peepal Tree Press, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-84523-126-2)
References
- ^ a b c "Mark McWatt — Brief Biography".
- ^ "LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY". Kaieteur News. 27 September 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Mark McWatt". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ Mark McWatt biography, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.
- ^ "Suspended Sentences | Peepal Tree Press". www.peepaltreepress.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ Mark McWatt page Archived 26 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine at Peepal Tree Press.
Further reading
- Jane Bryce (October 2010). "Poems of Penitence and Pilgrimage" sx salon, 1. Retrieved 12 April 2017.