Mark McWatt is a Guyanese poet who was born in 1947 in Georgetown, Guyana. He took his first degree at the University of Toronto, then went to Leeds University to complete a Ph.D. and has written famous pieces such as Interiors (1989), The Language of Eldorado (1994) and The Journey to Le Repentir (2009), the second and third of which were awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature. He is co-editor (with Stewart Brown) of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (2005). He is the recently retired Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill.

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