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Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain is a1989 poetry anthology edited byE. A. Markham.[1][2]
The anthology contributed to the enlarging of the concept of Caribbean literature to include West Indian voices in Britain.[3]
It includes selections from fourteen poets with photos, interviews, and essays. It has been an Open University set text and included in the syllabus at universities and colleges in Britain and the West Indies.[4]
In a long introductory essay Markham writes: "I wanted in this to identify and celebrate a broad range of aesthetic experience — those verbal, intellectual and musical constructs that both trap and release aspects of our particular history, geography, racial and social tension [...]".
