
Eye of the Island
by Corsino Fortes
Title:
Eye of the Island
Author:
Corsino Fortes
Series (if any):
World Poet Series
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
66 pages
Publisher:
Poetry Translation
ISBN-13:
9781738470143
EAN:
9781738470143
Publication Date:
13/05/2025
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
188
Dimensions (mm):
111 x 178 x 7
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Poet, activist, educator, lawyer and diplomat, Corsino Fortes (1933-2015) was Cape Verde''s ambassador to Portugal and Angola. Writing in Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese, his first collection was published to great acclaim in 1974, the year Portugal’s Estado Novo regime collapsed, leading to the decolonisation of Cape Verde and other African colonies in 1975. Corsino Fortes''s poems offer vivid and often hallucinatory glimpses of the land, sea and people of his country - word-scapes rooted in the earth and the body. This is a wider selection of this seminal poet''s work, translated by Daniel Hahn with the poet Sean O''Brien.


















