Dr Louis Regis, noted West Indian academic, researcher and literary critic, in delivering a memorial lecture in honour of the late Guyanese poet Martin Wylde Carter on Wednesday at the Umana Yana, shared the view that in his examination of Carter’s poems he found him to be a liberal humanist, and that his poetry and political activism are all derived from this fact.
A release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said the lecture by the Head of the Department of Literacy, Cultural and Communication Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus was entitled, “I am My Poem: the Signifying