Kendel hippolyte biography examples

Hippolyte’s career in print began in 1980, with his collection Island in the Sun, Side Two…. (UWI). He has since authored six more books: Bearings (1986), The Labyrinth (The Source, 1991), Birthright (Peepal Tree Press, 1997), Night Vision (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2005), and Wordplanting (Peepal Tree, 2019), as well as Fault Lines (Peepal Tree, 2012), winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category.

He served as editor for the anthologies Confluence: Nine St. Lucian Poets (The Source, 1988); So Much Poetry in We People (Eastern Caribbean Popular Theatre Organization, 1990), gathering Eastern Caribbean performance poetry; and This Poem-Worthy Place (2011), a collection of poems from Bermuda.

Hippolyte writes across languages and dialects, including Standard English, varieties of Caribbean English, and Kwéyòl, his nation language. His oeuvre incorporates free verse and structures influenced b