The Selected Diaries and Writings of Henry Swanzy: Ichabod 1948-58 Peter Pegnall

The Selected Diaries and Writings of Henry Swanzy: Ichabod 1948-58 Peter Pegnall"an unrivalled and often witty account of the Caribbean Voices and West African Voices programmes and the writing personalities involved in the crucial 1950s period." DAVID DABYDEEN Henry Swanzy (1915 2004) has an unrivalled position as the midwife of Caribbean writing in the post 1950s period. As the editor of the BBC Caribbean Voices programme (initiated by Una Marson) between 1946 and 1956, he was there as the careers of George Lamming, Edgar

the stories still have a dreamy

Compton-Burnett

This – her third book – was stopped because of Government war censorship then post-war paper shortages

editor and promoter of poetry

It is poetry written for the mouth

RM Francis

It is the best building in the world

Musing on language and relationships

and now lives in Scarborough

his poems range through conventional form and lyric voice to provocative fragments of intuitive

incantatory blend of street argot and Quranic-inspired language

and performer Sibyl Kempson and her company