Toppa Top 50: Fifty Great Jamaicans

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August 6, 2012


Lorna Goodison
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A poet and fiction writer with over a dozen books under her belt, Goodison has been able to vividly paint pictures of Jamaica with words for over thirty years. It’s not an overstatement to suggest that she’s probably the most important female poet in the Caribbean. —Erin MacLeod