Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Wayne Brown's] weekly 'In Our Time' column,

first published in The Trinidad Express in 1984, was a popular read. It later appeared in the Jamaica Observer. He worked briefly at The Gleaner as editor of the publication's Sunday Arts section.

Brown was an admirer of Caribbean literary giants like his compatriot V.S. Naipaul and the St Lucian Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. He was a prolific writer of poems and short stories. On The Coast, Voyages, Child Of The Sea and Landscape with Heron, were just some of his collections.

He also edited Derek Walcott: Selected Poetry, a collection of Walcott's poems, which was published in 1981.

from Jamaica Gleaner: Wayne Brown, Trinidadian poet, succumbs to illness

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