Love for an Island
by Phyllis Shand Allfrey | Edited by Lisabeth Paravisini-Gebert
£10.99
ISBN
9780957118751
Published
2014
Format
Paperback
also an eBook
ISBN
9780957118751
Published
2014
Format
Paperback
also an eBook
The collected poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey include all those published in her lifetime, some unpublished poems and a sample of her satirical poems written when she was editor and publisher of The Star newspaper in Dominica.
Editor Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, who is also Allfrey’s biographer, writes in her illuminating introduction that with the renewed academic interest in Allfrey’s work and the publication of this collection, Allfrey’s time has come.
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This is an important book for anyone wanting to engage with mid-20th century West Indian literary history. Allfrey’s poems tell us so much about her cultural worlds, and thrillingly, the collection includes real gems that truly enrich our sense of the treasury of Caribbean poetry.
— Stewart Brown, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Poetry
Love for an Island has already been acclaimed:
This is an important book for anyone wanting to engage with mid-20th century West Indian literary history. Allfrey’s poems tell us so much about her cultural worlds, and thrillingly, the collection includes real gems that truly enrich our sense of the treasury of Caribbean poetry.
— Stewart Brown, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Poetry
About the Author
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908-1986), author of Love for an Island, It Falls Into Place and The Orchid House, was born in Dominica, into a once wealthy planter family — like her compatriot and sometime friend Jean Rhys — and became a significant politician as well as a literary figure.
About the Author
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1908-1986), author of Love for an Island, It Falls Into Place and The Orchid House, was born in Dominica, into a once wealthy planter family — like her compatriot and sometime friend Jean Rhys — and became a significant politician as well as a literary figure.
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