Eye of the Island Nadine George-Graves and about Blackness in Britain

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

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

We had no wish to exhaust the topic

Gboyega Odubanjo

Eye of the Island Nadine George-Graves and about Blackness in BritainPoet, 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