A Leaf in His Ear: Selected PoemsWhen Mahadai Das died at the tragically early age of 49, there was an outpouring of grief across the Caribbean that a poet, who never quite had the chance to build a literary career to match her talents, had been lost. She had been known for some time as a highly promising Guyanese poet, but when Peepal Tree published her Bones in 1988, there was widespread critical recognition that here was an outstandingly original new voice. Then severe illness

He was recently a Visiting Professor at York University

He seeks solace in his father’s nurses

Having lived and worked in Japan and China

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was written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth and is based on his Fourth Symphony

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