Comments on: “I will always be speaking with you” http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2010/06/07/i-will-always-be-speaking-with-you/ Bimonthly review of Caribbean literature and art Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: McDonald Dixon http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2010/06/07/i-will-always-be-speaking-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-66 McDonald Dixon Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:17:28 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=1539#comment-66 Martin Carter will always be for me the people's poet. I will never forget the cobbler at Wellington and Robb Sts many years ago reciting by heart from "Poems of Resistance" while I waited for him to fix my shoe. "Where did you learn this," I asked, recognizing the poet. "I didn't learn it!" The cobbler replied, "it belong to us." Martin Carter will always be for me the people’s poet. I will never forget the cobbler at Wellington and Robb Sts many years ago reciting by heart from “Poems of Resistance” while I waited for him to fix my shoe.
“Where did you learn this,” I asked, recognizing the poet.
“I didn’t learn it!” The cobbler replied, “it belong to us.”

]]> By: john robert lee http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/2010/06/07/i-will-always-be-speaking-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-65 john robert lee Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:08:36 +0000 http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/?p=1539#comment-65 Thanks for this Nicholas and CRB. I'd love to see the whole film. And I don't know if I had heard Martin reading like this before. I must have heard him read live, but to hear the strong Guyanese accent on such a well known poem of his, read by him, was..startling...quite moving. Thanks for this idea of special pages for our special writers. it will be good to see, hear and read them here. Thanks for this Nicholas and CRB. I’d love to see the whole film. And I don’t know if I had heard Martin reading like this before. I must have heard him read live, but to hear the strong Guyanese accent on such a well known poem of his, read by him, was..startling…quite moving.
Thanks for this idea of special pages for our special writers. it will be good to see, hear and read them here.

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