List of reviews

List of reviews for Eric Merton Roach

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Laurence Breiner  Life and Times Laureate of Nowhere  The Caribbean review of Books
It is characteristic of Roach's story that his collected poems did not appear until almost twenty years after his death. Reviews often began with some variant of the question, "why didn't I know about this before?"

Laurence A. Breiner  'The People’s Poets' : E.M. Roach, The Flowering Rock: Collected Poems 1938-1974  CRNLE Reviews
Review focussing on Peepal Tree’s collections of work by older poets

Landeg White  E.M. Roach The Flowering Rock  Poetry Review
Review reappraising Eric Roach as a major writer, unjustly ignored before his death.

Geoffrey Philp  E.M. Roach, The Flowering Rock: Collected Poems 1938-1974  The Caribbean Writer
Review emphasising importance of Roach as an influence on subsequent Caribbean poetry