Caribbean poetry is a vast and vibrant field of poetry. It spans the poetry of many countries, including Cuba , Puerto Rico , Dominica , Haiti , Trinidad , Jamaica , and Martinique . Caribbean poets often write poetry in English, French, or Spanish. [1]

Caribbean poetry is vast and rapidly evolving field of poetry written by people from the Caribbean region and the diaspora. Caribbean poetry generally refers to a myriad of poetic forms, spanning epic , lyrical verse, prose poems , dramatic poetry and oral poetry , composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language.

Caribbean poetry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Particularly after the mid-1970s and 1980s, Caribbean poetry gained increasing visibility with the publication in Britain and North America of several anthologies; [1] over the years the canon has shifted and expanded, drawing both on oral and literary traditions, [2] [3] and with different styles evolving in response to the …

The poem can be read as a "'sustained comic attack' (Thieme 1994) on Capt. J. O. Cutteridge's West Indian Readers (1926 to 1929), a six-volume textbook widely used in the Caribbean for three decades. . . . it stages the 'infantalizing of the colonial subject' through the education system and points to the irony of the calypsonian's adept articulation of his escape from the fate of …