| Summary: | Christopher Laird talks to actor, poet Marc Matthews about his childhood, growing up in Guyana, what he has tried to capture in his poetry, he travelling throughout Guyana collecting songs and stories, his work in radio, how he was inspired in oral poetry performance by Evan Jones, LAMENT OF THE BANANA MAN (performs part of it), how the Dem Two production was developed with Ken Corsbie, about the position of Caribbean literature and its availability, accessibility as a reason for stage performance of our literature, reads from Martin Carter, exile from Guyana and attempted return, his more recent work in London, reads from GUYANA MY ALTAR. And ends with 6 O'CLOCK F EELING by his wife, Kamal Singh. Keywords: Dem Two, Ken Corsbie, Evan Jones, Martin Carter.
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