August 2017

Nobel Laureate, DEREK WALCOTT; TRINIDADIAN? — Llewellyn Mac Intosh

Reading Time 11 mins  In the year 1977, a calypsonian from Trinidad &Tobago named the Mighty Unknown caused patrons to the calypso tent to be falling off their seats when he performed a calypso called, “Ah Vex”. Unknown, in his cleverly constructed offering, threw four stanzas of piccong at the St Lucian poet whom the calypsonian alleged had had the temerity to be critical of the place which had been good enough to extend to him, its generosity; “Derek you must be fou bé dangé or mad Sit down on river stone and talk river bad You wouldn’t talk about… Read More »Nobel Laureate, DEREK WALCOTT; TRINIDADIAN? — Llewellyn Mac Intosh