Activity: Recorded reading
Topics: Poetry, plays, literary criticism
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: Sunday 26th September 2021
Time: 11AM Guyana/New York, 4PM UK
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cx0r-rR5reY
Paying tribute to the late Michael Gilkes, his friend Ken Corsbie hailed ‘the volume and range of his work [and] his accumulated productivity over a lifetime as a poet, scholar, playwright, theatre practitioner and actor..’
To meet Michael was to sense immediately that he was a man of ‘many skins’, able to shed light effortlessly on Guyanese poetry, literature, art, plays and music and to bring a regional and/or an international perspective to bear on them. Other scholars might acquire a similar depth of knowledge about Wilson Harris or Edgar Mittelholzer or Denis Williams or some other local luminary. Few could corral them into a cast to populate the canvas of our complex culture with Michael’s facility.
These readings give a brief glimpse of the topics that held his critical and creative gaze and include poems from Joanstown and scenes from Couvade.
Readers include Jasper Adams, Sara Bharrat, Ron Bobb-Semple, Simone Dowding, Francis Quamina Farrier, Russel Lancaster and John Robert Lee .
This is a recording. It will be available at any point after the time shown.
