The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English (Penguin Classics)
Paula Burnett was born in 1942 in Chelmsford, and was educated at Oxford University. She is the author of Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics, among many other publications.  Her most recent book presents her international research project to promote minority literatures, produced in collaboration with universities in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain. She teaches postcolonial literature and creative writing at Brunel University, London.