Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry Charles Chahwan shows a poet trying to

shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural heritage with an Ireland in the process of transition

he is forced to reconsider his perceptions of himself and his native Guyana

Nigel McLoughlin

But most were thrown in like dead goats or sheep

Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry Charles Chahwan shows a poet trying toThis isnt a conventional book of academic essays, though these pieces on Caribbean, African, British and American poets are always scholarly and intellectually rigorous. They are particularly rewarding as the work of a practicing poet writing about those of his peers whose work he admires. There are essays on major Caribbean figures, on Walcott, Brathwaite and Martin Carter, and on the major African poets Niyi Osundare, Jack Mapanje and Femi Oyebode,