Corentyne Thunder Dorothy Baird Banipal’s New York reading for

Banipal’s New York reading for Lebanese poets

’ Elsewhere there is a careful attention to the quality of Jamaican light that subtly maps shifts of mood

Vivan Eden

‘The Wall’

The 1950s are often seen as the “grey decade”

Corentyne Thunder Dorothy Baird Banipal’s New York reading forRamgolall, an old Indian cow minder, has punished himself to save money and has built a sizeable herd. His first daughter is the long established mistress of a well to do white planter. Their son, his grandson, Geoffry, light skinned and ambitious, seems destined for success. But when Geoffry becomes involved with Kattree, his daughter by a second marriage, Ramgolalls world begins to fall apart. This classic work of West Indian fiction, first