Caribbean poetry is also known as West Indian poetry. Caribbean poetry has its writers from the Caribbean diaspora. This poetry company of rhymes, lyrics and anything that is the Caribbean. Caribbean poetry became extremely popular at the times of 1970s and 1980s. From then on this poetry has evolved with its writing style and expressing way pertaining to the social and political situations.
The famous Caribbean poets are Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Derek Walcott is the winner of Nobel prize for literature in the year of 1992. Kamau is the winner of the griffin poetry price in the year of 2006. Linton is a jamaica born poet who became the only living poet to get publishes in the great penguin modern classics series.
Caribbean poetry is formed originally in the eighteenth century. It is basically a dynamic art form. Caribbean poetry has sometimes been static but …
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