Eye of the Island Nadine George-Graves So when her teacher casts

So when her teacher casts her in the school play

And sport’s the stuff of family lore – the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races

their children and these youngsters' friends

and about Blackness in Britain (through the depth and complexity of Blunt’s feeling for it)

From the Africans who took refuge on the island in the 16th century

Eye of the Island Nadine George-Graves So when her teacher castsPoet, activist, educator, lawyer and diplomat, Corsino Fortes (1933 2015) was Cape Verde's ambassador to Portugal and Angola. Writing in Cape Verdean Creole and Portuguese, his first collection was published to great acclaim in 1974, the year Portugals Estado Novo regime collapsed, leading to the decolonisation of Cape Verde and other African colonies in 1975. Corsino Fortes's poems offer vivid and often hallucinatory glimpses of the land, sea and