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Mervyn Morris Bibliography Mervyn Morris Bibliography By Mervyn Morris Poetry Examination Centre . London: New Beacon Books. 1992. I been there, sort of : New and Selected Poems . Manchester: Carcanet, 2006. On Holy Week: a sequence of poems for radio. London: New Beacon Books. 2016. Previously published by Sangster’s, Kingston, 1976; Earle Publishers, Brown’s Town, 1983; Pathways Number 10, April 1988, Kingston; Dangaroo Press, Sydney, 1993. Peelin Orange : Collected Poems . Manchester: Carcanet Press. 2017. Shadowboxing. London: New Beacon Books. 1979. The Pond. London: New Beacon Books. 1973. The Pond (Revised Edition). London: New Beacon Books: 1997. Vestiges . Erlagen, 1996. Vestiges/Spuren . Limted edition of 100 copies with paintings by Ulla Schoedel, translated in German by Wolfgang Binder. Erlagen, 1996. Morris, Mervyn, Basil McFarlane, and Dennis Scott. Poems from "On the offbeat" read at the Barn Theatre, October-November, 1966 . N.p. 1966. Short Story “A Death” in Caribbean Prose , edited by Andrew Salkey. London: Evans, 1967, pp. 105-112. Reprinted in That Once Was Me , Penguin English Project Stage 2, 1973, pp. 56-61. Non-Fiction A Study Guide to ‘Old Story Time ’. San Juan, Harlow: Longman, 1995. Focus 1983: An Anthology of Contemporary Jamaican Writing . Kingston, Jamaica: Caribbean Authors Publishing Co.,1983. Is English We Speaking: West Indian Literature . London: The British Library, 1993. ‘Is English We Speaking’ and Other Essays . Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999. Making West Indian Literature . Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture . Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2014; Oxford: Signal Books, 2014. 1 Book Chapters “A Letter from England” in Writing Black Britain, 1948-1990: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Manchester University Press, 2000. Afterword. Crossing Customs: International Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture , edited by Andrew Garrod and Jay Davis. New York: Falmer Press, 1999, pp. 249-251. “Cross-cultural impersonations: Pauline Melville's ‘Shape-shifter’” in New Voices in Caribbean Literature , University of Calgary Press, 1993. “Derek Walcott” in West Indian Literature, edited by Bruce King, London: Macmillan, 1979, pp.144- 160. Second Edition published in 1995, pp. 176-193. “Feeling, Affection, Respect” in Disappointed Guests: Essays by African, Asian, and West Indian students , edited by Henri Tajfel and john L. Dawson. London: Oxford University Press, 1965, pp. 5- 26. Part of the essay appeared as “A West Indian Student in England (A Personal Reaction)”, Caribbean Quarterly vol. 8 No. 4, December 1962, pp. 17-29. Foreword. Caribbean Poetry Now , by Stewart Brown, London; New York: Edward Arnold, 1992. “Happy Experience” in Hall (Memoirs of St Edmund Hall graduates 1920-1980), edited by Alan Jenkins. London: Farrand Press, 1989, pp. 179-182. Introduction. Anancy and Miss Lou , by Louise Bennett. Kingston: Sangster’s, 1979, pp. vii-x. Introduction. Black Albino , by Namba Roy, 1961, Harlow: Longman, 1986, pp. iii-xii. Introduction. Moses Ascending , by Samuel Selvon. London: Heinemann, 1984, pp.vii-xix. Introduction. Mutabaruka, The First Poems (1970-1979) , by Mutabaruka, Kingston: Jamaica, P. Issa, 1980. Introduction. Mutabaruka: The Next Poems , by Mutabaruka. Kingston: Paul Issa, 2005, pp. vii-x. Introduction. My Green Hills of Jamaica and Five Jamaican Short Stories , by Claude McKay, Kingston: Heinemann Educational Book, 1979. Introduction. New Day , by Victor Stafford Reid, London: Heinemann Caribbean Writers, 1973. Introduction. Old Story Time and Smile Orange , by Trevor Rhone, Harlow: Longman, 1987. Introduction. On the Coast and Other Poems , by Wayne Brown. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010. pp.7- 17. Introduction. The Leopard , by Victor Stafford Reid, London: Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1980. Second Edition, 2008. pp. i.x. Introduction. Two Can Play and School’s Out , by Trevor Rhone, Essex: Longman, 1986. Introduction. School’s Out & Two Can Play , by Trevor Rhone, Harlow: Longman, 1986, pp. v-vx. Introduction. Snowscape with Signature by Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. Leeds: Peepal Tree, 1993, pp.9-11. Introduction. Uncle Time , by Dennis Scott. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg, 1973, pp. vii-x. Introduction to “White Witch” in For the Reckord: A Collection of Three Plays by Barry Reckord , edited by Yvonne Brewster. London: Oberon Books, 2010. pp. 156-160. “It Not Easy At All, At All, At All” in The Comic Vision in West Indian Literature , edited by Roydon Salick. Marabella, Trinidad: University of the West Indies, 1994, pp.159-166. “Kamau Brathwaite” in The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite , edited by Emily Allen Williams. Westport: Praeger, 2004, pp. 2757-280. “Louise Bennett” in Fifty Caribbean Writers , edited by Daryl C. Dance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 35-45. “Louise Bennett” (pp.116-117), “Paul Keens-Douglas” (p.761), “Mutabaruka” (p.1061), “Caryl Phillips” (pp.1220-1221), “Michael Smith” (pp.1502-1503) in Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English , edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. London: Routlegde, 1994. 2 “Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley” and “victor Stafford Reid” in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro- Latin American Biography . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. “Mervyn Morris” in Three Caribbean Poets on Their Work , edited by Victor L. Chang. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies, 1993, pp.41-68. “Miss Lou, Some Heirs and Successors” in Caribbean Literature in a Global Context , edited by Funso Aiyejina and Paula Morgan. San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago: Lexicon, 2006, pp. 304-316. “On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously” in The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature , edited by Allison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, New York; London: Routledge, 1996. pp. 194-7. “Oblation” in For the Geography of A Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite , edited by Timothy J. Reiss, Africa World Press, 2001. “Overlapping Journeys: The Arrivants” in The Art of Kamau Brathwaite , edited by Stewart Brown. Bridgend: Seren, 1995. Pp. 117-131. “People Speech” in Reggae International . Edited by Stephen Davis and Peter Simon. New York: Rogner& Bernard, 1982; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, pp. 189-191. Also, as “People Speech: Some Dub Poets”, in Race Today Review 1983, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 150-157; and in The Black Nation Vol. 4 No. 1, Summer/Fall 1984, pp. 38-42. Preface. Meck Mi Tell Yuh by Joan Andrea Hutchinson. Kingston: Joan Andrea Hutchinson, 2004, pp.3. “Printing the Performance: ‘Them’ and ‘Us’?”, in Us/Them: Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial Literary Cultures , edited by Gordon Collier. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1992, pp. 241-247. Early version published in Jamaica Journal 1990. “Riding Pillion with the Poet” in Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain . Edited by E.A. Markham, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1989, pp.157-159. “The Dialect Poetry of Louise Bennett” in Critics on Caribbean Literature: Readings in Literary Criticism , edited by Edward Baugh, Boston; London: Allen & Unwin, 1978 and in Contemporary Literary Criticism , edited by Jean C. Stine. Detroit: Gale, 1984. [A slightly longer version of the essay was published as “On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously”, in The Sunday Gleaner , Kingston, June 1964, and in Jamaica Journal Vol. 1 No. 1, December 1967, pp. 69-74. Extracts reprinted in The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature ed. Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 194-197.] “The Fortunate Traveller” in The Art of Derek Walcott , edited by Stewart Brown, Brigend: Seren Books, 1991, pp.101-111. “The Good Undergraduate Life” in Celebrating the Past...: A View from Within , edited by Marlene Hamilton. Kingston: University of the West Indies, 1999, pp. 13-17. “The Poet as Novelist: The Novels of George Lamming” in The Islands in Between: Essays on West Indian Literature , London: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 73-85. “The Poetry of Mikey Smith” in West Indian Literature and its Social Context , edited by Mark McWatt. Cave Hill: University of the West Indies, 1985, pp. 48-54. “Walcott and the Audience for Poetry” in Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott , edited by Robert D. Hammer, Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1993. pp. 174-192. 3 Poems in Anthologies and Journals Anthologies: A World of Poetry for CXC, edited by Mark McWatt and Hazel Simmons-McDonald. Oxford: Heinemann Educational, 1994. An Anthology of African and Caribbean Writing in English, edited by John Figueroa. London: Heinemann Educational, 1982. Another English , edited by Catherine Barnett and TiphanieYanique. New York: Tupelo Press and the Poetry Foundation, 2014. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, edited by John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996. Bearing Witness: The Best of the Observer Arts Magazine 2000, edited by Wayne Brown. Kingston: The Jamaica Observer, 2000. Bearing Witness 2: The Best of the Observer Arts Magazine 2001, edited by Wayne Brown. Kingston: The Jamaica Observer, 2001. Bearing Witness 3: The Best of the Observer Literary Arts Magazine 2002 , edited by Wayne Brown. Kingston: The Jamaica Observer, 2003. Bite In Stage 3, edited by Cecil Gray. London: Nelson, 1972. Breaklight , edited by Andrew Salkey. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. New York: Doubleday, 1972. Caribanthology 1, edited by Bruce St John. Bridgetown: Cedar Press, 1981. Caribanthology 2 , edited by Arthur D. Drayton. Bridgetown: Cedar Press, 1981. Caribbean
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