Non-British Poetry

Question 1

Derek Walcott belongs to?

Answer 1

Caribean poetry

Question 2

Poets in Caribean poetry?

Answer 2

., Eward Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodson, Wayne Brown, Dennis Scott, David Dabydeen, Cyril Dabyden, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, etc.

Question 3

What is Dub Poetry?

Answer 3

Dub, an indigenous usage in this context, is a form of performance poetry having its roots in popular Jamaican culture, and more particularly in reggae and Rastafarianism. The movement has served to bring poetry, or at least some poetry, back to the people, although the performance-entertainment aspect sometimes mask shallow content and creativity.

Question 4

Mikey Smith is a?

Answer 4

Dub poet

Question 5

Matabaruska was a?

Answer 5

Dub Poet, Rastafarian from Jamaica

Question 6

Calypso is a?

Answer 6

Baptist revival poetry.

Belair and Calinda songs

Question 7

Green Night poems were written by?

Answer 7

Derek Walcott

Question 8

Omeros was published in?

Answer 8

1990

Question 9

Walcott won the Nobel Prize in?

Answer 9

1992

second after Saint John Perse

Question 10

Tiepolo’s Hound (2000), illustrated with copies of his watercolours; The Prodigal (2004), and White Egrets (2010), are collections by?

Answer 10

Derek Walcott

Question 11

Idandre and other poems belonged to?

Answer 11

Wole Soyinka
Other collections
A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972), Ogun Abibiman (1976), Mandela’s Earth (1989), and Samarkand and Other Markets I have Known (2002).

Question 12

Slaves do not possess their kind. Nor do / The truly free’ (‘Funeral Sermon, Soweto’, are in collection?

Answer 12

Mandela’s Earth

Question 13

Piano and Drums is a collection by?

Answer 13

Gabriel Okara

Poems “Once Upon a Time”.