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Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist.
Life
Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945, he went to
Cambridge University
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, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, returning to England in 1953.
[Hughes, Michael, "Drayton, Geoffrey", ''A Companion to West Indian Literature'', Collins, 1979, pp. 42–3.] He worked as a freelance journalist in
London
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and
Madrid
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. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for ''Petroleum Times'', becoming its editor. In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the
Economist Intelligence Unit
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.
[Myers, Robin, ed., ''A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language from 1940 to 1970'', Pergamon Press, 1978.]
Drayton was the author of one volume of poetry, ''Three Meridians'' (1950), and two novels: ''Christopher'' (1959), which was first published in part in ''
Bim
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'' magazine,
and ''Zohara'' (1961). He also wrote short stories, such as "Mr Dombie the Zombie", which was broadcast on the
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programme ''
Caribbean Voices''.
Drayton later lived in Spain, where he died in 2017.
Works
Novels
* ''Christopher'', London: Collins, 1959; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1972.
* ''Zohara'', London:
Secker and Warburg
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History
Secker & Warburg
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, 1961.
Poetry
* ''Three Meridians'', Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1950.
* "The Phantom", ''Bim'', no. 5 (February 1945), p. 32
* "Strindbergian Sonata", ''Bim'', no. 6, p. 16
* "Nostalgia", ''Bim'', no. 7, p. 52
* "L'Infinito de Leopardi (Translated from the Italian)", ''Bim'', no. 8, p. 6
* "Memories", ''Bim'', no. 9, p. 12
* "On An Etching By Picasso", ''Bim'', no. 9, p. 57
* "The Ancient Carib", ''Bim'', no. 10, p. 116–117
* "Singing Negress", ''Bim'', no. 11, p. 242
* "Old Black Beggar", ''Bim'', no. 11, p. 246
* "To The Poets Of The Caribbean", ''Bim'', no. 11, p. 248
* "Morgan Lewis", ''Bim'', no. 13, p. 67
* "Negro Divers", ''Bim'', no. 13, p. 67
* "Double Game", ''Bim'', no. 13, p. 6
* "Translation from Catallus (Lyrics No-72: On Lesbia's Infidelity)", ''Bim'', no. 14, p. 120
* "Speculations On Uranium", ''Bim'', no. 16, p. 230
* "The Star", ''Bim'', no. 17, p, 7
* "The Cobbler", ''Bim'', no. 18, p, 106
Short stories
* "Swiss Comedy", ''Bim'', no. 5 (February 1945), pp. 11–13, 57–59
* "Dear Mother", ''Bim'', no. 6, pp. 27–28, 91–93
* "No Honour Among Thieves", ''Bim'', no. 7, pp. 32–33, 105–107
* "Narcissus", ''Bim'', no. 9, pp. 10–12
* "Mr. Dombey", ''Bim'', no. 19, pp. 180-182
* "Manrique", ''Bim'', no. 22, pp. 72–73
* "Christopher", ''Bim'', no. 26, pp. 92–118
* "The Redfern Farewell", ''Bim'', no. 27, pp. 159–162
* "Sunset Over San Remo", ''Bim'', no. 31, pp. 173–175
* "Shadow And Shape", ''Bim'', no. 32, pp. 224–227
* "Return To The Island", ''Bim'', no. 40, pp. 252–256
* "The Moon And The Fisherman", ''Bim'', no. 45, pp. 17–20
Non-Fiction
* "Farrago (Extracts from a notebook)", ''Bim'', no.12, pp. 281–287
* "Revisiting Barbados", ''Bim'', no.14, pp. 83–84
Criticism
*
A. N. Forde, "''Christopher''" (review), in ''Bim'', vol. 8, no. 29 (June/December 1951), p. 64.
* John Harrison, "''Three Meridians''" (review), in ''Bim'', vol. 4, no. 14 (June 1951), pp. 144–5.
*
Kenneth Ramchand
Kenneth Ramchand (born 1939) is a Trinidad and Tobago academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction". He has written extensively on many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipau ...
, "Terrified Consciousness", in ''
Journal of Commonwealth Literature'', no. 7 (July 1969), pp. 8–19.
*
Derek Walcott, "''Zohara''" (review), in ''
Trinidad Guardian
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History
Its first edition was published ...
'', 12 November 1961, p. 26.
References
External links
* Thomas Armstrong
"Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian literature" ''Arts Etc''.
1924 births
2017 deaths
20th-century male writers
20th-century novelists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Barbadian journalists
Barbadian male writers
Barbadian novelists
Barbadian poets
Male journalists
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