A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems Lucy Tunstall from the flicker of the

from the flicker of the firefly in rural Jamaica

and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council

for consultative styles of leadership in contrast to the tendency to authoritarianism that has been a malign element in Guyanese politics

She died in July 2006

A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems Lucy Tunstall from the flicker of theWhen Mahadai Das died at the tragically early age of 49, there was an outpouring of grief across the Caribbean that a poet, who never quite had the chance to build a literary career to match her talents, had been lost. She had been known for some time as a highly promising Guyanese poet, but when Peepal Tree published her Bones in 1988, there was widespread critical recognition that here was an outstandingly original new voice. Then severe illness