Activity: Lecture and poetry recital
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: February 28 2014
You Tube Clip: http://youtu.be/qOoHc2RaHgA
Egbert Martin, who published under the (ironic) nickname of ‘Leo’, was a prolific writer, a bedridden poet based in East Street, Georgetown whose work was appeared in the local nineteenth century publications, The Colonist, The Argosy and Echo and has also been published, more recently, by the Caribbean Press.
Ras Michael reads The Almshouse in this clip.
It begins:
Here’s the graveyard of human ambition!
The storehouse of failure and woes!
The total of life’s long addition!
The aggregate brought to a close!
Where no prospect on earth lies before,
And the past is an agent of ill;
Where the striving must cease evermore,
Though sorely against heart and will…
Though sorely against heart and will…
See the press clipping below for a fuller analysis of the signifcance of Egbert Martin’s work by David Dabydeen.