Tribute to George Lamming (May 11, 1930 - June 4, 2022)

Authors

  • Cyril Dabydeen University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29664

Abstract

Tribute to prominant Caribbean writer George Lamming who passed away June 4, 2022 by Cyril Dabydeen.

Author Biography

Cyril Dabydeen, University of Ottawa

Cyril Dabydeen -- “a noted Canadian poet” (House of Commons, Ottawa). His books include: My Undiscovered Country/Stories, God’s Spider, My Multi-Ethnic Friends/Stories, and Imaginary Origins: New and Selected Poems, My Brahmin Days and Other Stories, and The Wizard Swami (novel). His Drums of My Flesh, is a Guyana Prize winner for best novel, and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Prize. Cyril’s work has appeared in over sixty literary anthologies, e.g., Poetry, The Critical Quarterly, Canadian Literature, the Oxford, Penguin, and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse, and Singing in the Dark: Lockdown Poems (Penguin/Random House, India, 2020). He juried for Canada’s Governor General’s Award (poetry) and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (U/Oklahoma). He taught Writing at the University of Ottawa and worked extensively in government. He holds post-graduate degrees from Queen’s University, Canada. He is Ottawa Poet Laureate Emeritus.

Green and Black Light, a photograph by Chandam Suman

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Published

2022-12-17

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity

Section

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