Martin Wylde Carter

Anita Patterson (Boston University)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

Dates

Born 7 Jun 1927
Died 13 Dec 1997
Activity 1947-1997

Places

Born in Guyana
Active in Guyana

Activities

Primary

Poet
Revolutionary, Activist

Other

Essayist

Resources

Carter's Works

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Martin Wylde Carter has long been regarded in the Caribbean as an important political poet and activist whose works painstakingly trace the volatile transition from colonialism to independence in Guyana. Imprisoned during the early 1950s by the British colonial authorities for his involvement in allegedly subversive activity by Guyana’s first democratically elected government, Carter wrote many poems that were inspired by his role in the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the nationalist anti-colonial movement. Although three volumes of Carter’s verse -

The Hill of Fire Glows Red

(1951),

The Hidden Man

(1952), and

The Kind Eagle

(1952) - were all published locally, he is best known for

Poems of Resistance from British Guiana

(1954), which was published by a socialist press in…

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Citation: Patterson, Anita. "Martin Wylde Carter". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 October 2004; last revised 04 October 2018. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=762, accessed 21 November 2024.]