ABSTRACT
I t is impossible to address the subject of Anglophone Caribbeanpoetry without being aware of its difficult start. Growing as it has from the legacy of colonialism, Caribbean culture, according to Louis James' Caribbean Literature in English (1999), possesses "an essentially subversive quality" that pervades its poetry and expressive arts. It had to be subversive to exist in the first place. Disentangling a falsified genealogy has been part of the exercise of West Indian poetry finding its voice.
