ABSTRACT
The poems that make up the Heritage volume appear in chronological order, 1956 to 1968. Dudley had his own book in the Heritage series. It was the one book he ever actually been asked to do: Dudley wanted it published but felt its contents were 'wrong' for the image of Broadside. With Conrad Kent Rivers, Jamie Thompson, Mukhtarr Mustapha and Frank John and after Audre Lorde, Ron was our closest and dearest friend out of "the Heritage crowd". Frank John was the one who suggested that the work of his fellow-Trinidadian, also living in London, should get a place in the Heritage series and it duly did. The tenth anniversary of Heritage was a very modest affair but it was a truly joyous occasion all the same: the publication of a new Robert Hayden collection, at his own suggestion. The relation between Dolores Kendrick and Heritage is a curious one.
