Mervyn Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mervyn Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mervyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sixty Years Later
Invited to write an autobiographical essay on "Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously," sixty years after its initial publication, the author questions some of the attitudes and opinions he expressed then, having learned from Bennett's Jamaica Labrish (1966) and some responses to it to pay more attention to Bennett's performance choices and her sociopolitical commentary. This present essay also (re)presents her as a writer whose craft will often rewar…
The Cunny Louise Bennett: Values and Craft
Remembering John La Rose; To the Unknown Non-Combatant
Making West Indian Literature
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Poems
Joining the dots: Devising a supported self-help strategy to help pituitary patients integrate their medical care
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Poems
Peelin Orange
At a Poetry Reading
At a Poetry Reading Mervyn Morris (bio) Negotiating strangers and inscrutable desires, the old pretenders hope to be accepted as constructive liars. If, playing parts, they can avoid the spurious (the false pretence, the histrionic fraud) and manage the occasional epiphany, some of the other actors will applaud. Mervyn Morris Mervyn Morris retired from the University of the West Indies, where he was a professor of creative writing and West Indian…
Birthdays
Birthdays Mervyn Morris (bio) The game is metaphor. "Birthdays : reassuring corners in the long, dark room of time." "Reminder knots," another voice proposes. "Birthdays are reminders time is heartless, beauty fades." There is no string of time unravelling till the end is cut, only a dark pool swirling— letters, matches, galliwasps, toothpaste tubes and railway tickets, myriad markers from our lives in seminal confusion, falsified by cuckoo-clock…
Determinants of outcome in the pathways through care for children hearing voices
Auditory hallucination, or hearing voices, is generally associated with psychopathology. In psychiatry it is inter‐preted as a symptom of an illness, with no connection to the individual's life history. Voice hallucinations in childhood occur in a variety of contexts and have variable long‐term outcomes. Little is known about the course of the experience. In this study, 80 children and youngsters hearing voices were interviewed on four occasions …
A Poem
Poems
A note on ‘dub poetry’
Dub Poetry’
Mutabaruka
Is English we speaking
IN SAMUEL SELVON's The Lonely Londoners (set in the 1950s), Galahad, a Trinidadian immigrant into Britain, is talking with an English woman, Daisy. After their first date they are sipping tea in his basement bedsitter: ‘You get that raise the foreman was promising you?’ Galahad ask, for something to say
Gender in some performance poems
Guest Editor's Foreword
For Elsa Goveia
Louise Bennett in Print
(1982). Louise Bennett in Print. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, Critical Approaches to West Indian Literature, pp. 44-56
New Day in Jamaica
(1975). New Day in Jamaica. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 239-245
Poems
University Study
Walcott And The Audience For Poetry
(1968). Walcott And The Audience For Poetry. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 7-24
Louise Bennett in Print
(1982). Louise Bennett in Print. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, Critical Approaches to West Indian Literature, pp. 44-56
Walcott And The Audience For Poetry
(1968). Walcott And The Audience For Poetry. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 7-24
A West Indian Student in England: A Personal Reaction
A West Indian Student in England: A Personal Reaction
Walcott And The Audience For Poetry
(1968). Walcott And The Audience For Poetry. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 1-2, pp. 7-24
University Study
Poems
New Day in Jamaica
(1975). New Day in Jamaica. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 239-245
Louise Bennett in Print
(1982). Louise Bennett in Print. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, Critical Approaches to West Indian Literature, pp. 44-56
For Elsa Goveia
Guest Editor's Foreword
Is English we speaking
IN SAMUEL SELVON's The Lonely Londoners (set in the 1950s), Galahad, a Trinidadian immigrant into Britain, is talking with an English woman, Daisy. After their first date they are sipping tea in his basement bedsitter: ‘You get that raise the foreman was promising you?’ Galahad ask, for something to say
Gender in some performance poems
Mutabaruka
A note on ‘dub poetry’
Dub Poetry’
Poems
A Poem
Determinants of outcome in the pathways through care for children hearing voices
Auditory hallucination, or hearing voices, is generally associated with psychopathology. In psychiatry it is inter‐preted as a symptom of an illness, with no connection to the individual's life history. Voice hallucinations in childhood occur in a variety of contexts and have variable long‐term outcomes. Little is known about the course of the experience. In this study, 80 children and youngsters hearing voices were interviewed on four occasions …
Peelin Orange
At a Poetry Reading
At a Poetry Reading Mervyn Morris (bio) Negotiating strangers and inscrutable desires, the old pretenders hope to be accepted as constructive liars. If, playing parts, they can avoid the spurious (the false pretence, the histrionic fraud) and manage the occasional epiphany, some of the other actors will applaud. Mervyn Morris Mervyn Morris retired from the University of the West Indies, where he was a professor of creative writing and West Indian…
Birthdays
Birthdays Mervyn Morris (bio) The game is metaphor. "Birthdays : reassuring corners in the long, dark room of time." "Reminder knots," another voice proposes. "Birthdays are reminders time is heartless, beauty fades." There is no string of time unravelling till the end is cut, only a dark pool swirling— letters, matches, galliwasps, toothpaste tubes and railway tickets, myriad markers from our lives in seminal confusion, falsified by cuckoo-clock…
Joining the dots: Devising a supported self-help strategy to help pituitary patients integrate their medical care
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Poems
Poems
Making West Indian Literature
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Remembering John La Rose; To the Unknown Non-Combatant
The Cunny Louise Bennett: Values and Craft
History (21 works) · Art (16 works) · History (16 works) · Literature (10 works) · Poetry (10 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (8 works) · Genealogy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works)