Publisher's Synopsis
This is an anthology of verse, which outlines and defines the literary adventure of two people becoming one writing entity.Before the Beginning, one member of Team-to-be was born in England in 1933, the other was born in the Bahamas, then a Crown Colony of the UK, eleven years later.They first met as Teachers in a Bahamian High School during 1967.Primarily, the couples writing association was born out of necessity: At that time, text-books in Bahamian Schools were products written for British Students and were mainly irrelevant to the young people of The Islands, whose experience of 'bad' weather was the wind and water of hurricanes, not the snow and ice of blizzards.Such incomparability was a chronic problem when teaching English Language (Comprehension Exercises) and Literature ev (Contemporary Backgrounds of novels etc.) even though English is the standard language of the Bahamas.The end result was that a man and a woman, British and Bahamian, talked 'shop' whilst enjoying their coffee-breaks and jointly decided to bring some relevancy to their English Classes.They began to write a few Bahamian-style Short Stories to be used for Comprehension Exercises; and also, they produced some dramatic skits, utilizing Bahamian Dialect.After a year, they were able, by the improved results of National and International Examination results, that their combined innovative efforts had been successful.On an intimate personal level, they also discovered they were beginning to 'think alike' and that the only 'real'' means of handling this extension of their relationship was through poetry.William Wordworth explains 'emotion remembered in tranquility' better than I - he has the seniority.The two associates continued to write stories, novels, plays, lyrics even 'blogs, but, they hogged their personal poetry to themselves.Of course the inevitable happened: It surprised them, but none of their friends and colleagues.!They were married in 1969.It is now 2019: They are still talking, writing and 'sharing' - they eventually realized that no form of artistic expression has any validity unless it is shared.The Obeah of Romance is still 'doing its thin
