FOR KAMAU: A QUIPU OF KEY MOMENTS IN THE 50TH YEAR OF OUR FRIENDSHIP

1966, June: our first meeting, at a Longman authors’ party. You were there, and Doris/Mex alongside, as Series Editor of The People Who Came;  I as editor of forthcoming anthology of West Indian writing for young readers, later titled The Sun’s Eye.  Your astonishment when I hailed you as author of poem “The Pawpaw,” from a back issue of Bim.