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GuyanaLite
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GuyanaLite offers old poems from Guyana, formerly British Guiana, as well as excerpts from old publications on all things Guyanese.
- Author: Hemraj Muniram
- Listed in: Poetry Caribbean
- Tags: caribbean guyana british guiana guyanese poems guyana trivia guyana history
Recent Posts
Martin Carter (1927-1997)
Martin Carter is Guyana's best-known anti-colonial poet. A master at finding the right words to denounce wrongdoing, he lived as he wrote and paid the price in prison. But there is another, non-political Martin Carter; a sociological yet personal one...
Peyari Lall (1895-1968) & Manniram (1926-1999)
The loss of a loved one can tear the heart, sear the soul and wear down the body. For me, November is not only about falling autumn leaves but also about fallen forebears. On the morning of November 16, 1968, I stood by my paternal grandfather's beds...
Wordsworth McAndrew (1936-2008)
There is an albatross in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. There is a raven in the eponymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. And the Guyanese poet and folklorist Wordsworth McAndrew has chosen another bird of ill omen or d...
Essequibo River
Flowing northwards about 628 miles from the Acarai Mountains near the Guyana-Brazil border, the Essequibo River is the longest waterway in Guyana. What is the origin of its name? Here is one explanation by the author James Rodway:"The largest river, ...
Rajkumari Singh (1923-1979)
Rice was grown on and off in Guyana since the 18th century. With the introduction of immigrants from India, after 1838 rice cultivation took root in an organized, sustaining and widespread way. British Guiana emerged as the English-speaking Caribbean...
Leopold Street, Georgetown
In the heyday of the mighty British Empire, in the only British colony in South America, a nondescript street was named for a British prince. He was one of four sons of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884) was n...
