Distinguished Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves will read from his recently published collection of poems titled The Poems Man tomorrow at the National Gallery.
In a press release the Gallery said the collection of 75 poems was recently published by Peepal Tree Press. It was written over a 30-year period and is dedicated to late National Poet Martin Carter. The book takes its title from one of Carter’s well-known poems and Greaves also includes six pen and ink drawings in the publication. An introductory interview by literary critic and University of Birmingham Professor Stewart Brown is also included in the publication.
Greaves’s first collection of poems Horizons was also published by Peepal Tree Press, in 2002.
This collection won the Guyana Prize for Literature in the first book of poems category.
The release said Greaves will also make a Power Point presentation on 11 of his latest paintings which continue his series “Shadows Move Among Them” which is dedicated to late Guyanese author Edgar Mittelholzer whose birth centenary will be marked in December.
Greaves who is also a sculptor and a musician has works in the National Collections of Guyana and Barbados and in several private and institutional collections. Over the span of his 50-year career he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Guyana, Barbados and the wider Caribbean including in the Carifesta exhibitions between 1972 and 1992, at international bienniales and in London and Paris. Greaves has won gold and silver medals for his paintings and sculptures in Guyana and Barbados and a gold medal at the Santo Domingo Bienniale. He was awarded The Golden Arrow of Achievement (AA) in 1975.
His last exhibited works at Castellani House in 2001 was titled `There is a Meeting Here Tonight.’ It comprised a series of paintings commenting on the political and social culture of the Caribbean and in New-Retro, a retrospective exhibition in 2005.
The Gallery said the function starts at 5 pm. The public is invited.
