Cecil Gray

The Woolgatherer gives us the richest kind of autobiography: tentative, questioning, multi-layered and shot through with vivid memories. There is a refreshing astringency of vision, a cathartic toughness in the way Gray's poetry confronts the remembered humiliations of childhood poverty, adult disappointments and mature regret. But though there is a shunning of all false consolations, there is room for wry and stoic humour which prevents any tendency to bleakness in these poems. There is also celebration of moments of joy and those persons such as the Misses Norman and Miss Maingot who offered the liberating gift of education and access to books. Above all, Gray's poetry consistently delights both mind and the senses with its inventiveness and rigour in the working out of metaphor, the taut energy of its rhythmic patterns and sometimes rhyme. Cecil Gray was born in Trinidad in 1923 and has had a distinguished career as a Caribbean educator. He now lives in Canada.

The Woolgatherer

Peter Warlock

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer

Wavelengths is a collection of 20 superb stories by Caribbean writers, chosen to meet the needs of students in all types of Secondary school in the Caribbean. It provides a one year course for first or second year pupils.

A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition for Caribbean Secondary Schools

Wavelengths

A four-book course satisfying all language needs from lower secondary to CSEC examination level.

English for Life 3

Margery Gray

Or, The Clinophile's Vade Mecum

The Bed

A four-book course satisfying all language needs for lower secondary to CSEC examination level.

English for Life 4 Examination Level

Primary Comprehension Skills is a four book series written especially for Caribbean Primary schools. It provides a series of graded reading passages and a variety of exercises designed to help children develop the skills they need to read with understanding.

Primary Comprehension Skills - Book 4

The composer and music critic portrays his life and describes his friendships with figures such as D.H. Lawrence, Augustus John, and Dylan Thomas

Musical Chairs, Or, Between Two Stools

The Women of Troy

Tr. and Adapted from the Original of Euripides and Set to Music by Cecil Gray

Response has been a very firm favourite amongst Caribbean teachers for many years. This revised edition contains many new stories, including some by relatively new West Indian writers.

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