The Sun's Eye

by Anne Walmsley

This new edition contains a range of stories and poems including selections of Caribbean writing dating from the 1960s onwards. Questions have been added to this edition to help teachers initiate pupils' discussion and further work based on the text. In addition there are also notes about the writers, prepared by each author specially for this book.

Genres: Literature

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 1968

About the author

Anne Walmsley was a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature over a period of five decades. She was widely recognised for her work as Longman's Caribbean publisher, and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited. Her school anthology, The Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers (1968), drew on her use of local literary material while teaching in Jamaica. A participant in and chronicler of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Walmsley was also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010). She lived in London.

Reviews

[for-much-deliberation ... · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highlights stories and poems by caribbean writers, another text i used in high school.

[Jadvia Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

From what I read it is amazing

[Trudya-Nn Colquhoun · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would like to re_read it

[Petra Nanton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this growing up. It’s great

[Nevron Telesford]

yes

[Montell Inniss · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's the best short story compilation I've ever read in my life. Rosalie Gidharee is the best story I've read out of many in the book.