Anthony Joseph
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A late arrival allowed time for a miniature showcase of Marlborough talent but, no sooner had Mr Joseph appeared, than he had the audience buzzing.
His work focused on the rhythms and sounds that were present in his Trinidadian upbringing. Bouncing his words like the trumpets in a ska band, he punctuated his sentences with the laid back waltz of reggae music.
Claiming that, for a poet, sounds sometimes become more important than meaning, he provided us with an experience similar to listening to an old Duke Reid record; yet, his depiction of Trinidadian life allowed sounds to accentuate meaning. The audience was soon providing a base line of “hide the magic” over which he pronounced the melody through the words of a poem.