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Author: Morris, Mervyn
publisher name: New Beacon Books Ltd
ISBN: ISBN 9781873201138
The Pond (1973), Mervyn Morris's first book of poems, presented a significant West Indian poet wittily engaged in apparent self-scrutiny and assessment of the wider world. it moved Lloyd Brown,in West Indian Poetry, to identify Morris as "the most private, the least activist in orientation of the major contemporary poets" but one who "does not reject the value of political and social statement as such" and is committed to multiple insights and possibilities".
New Beacon Books is happy to make The Pond available again. Though the book remains substantially the same, this is a revised edition. The 1973 versions are supplied in the Notes.
The Pond
"In The Pond Morris speaks for the dignity and the needs of the sensitive private human being who is alert to the voice of his pwn experience and who is at the same time aware, creatively aware, of the society he lives in.....He has a clear-eyed decency of spirit nourished by a fine and generous intelligence.
