Patricia G. Turnbull (born 1952) is a poet from Saint Lucia. In 1991, she was awarded the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry.
Life
editPatricia Turnbull was born in Saint Lucia. She gained a BA at the University of the West Indies in 1974, and an MSc in English education from Syracuse University in 1986. She has worked as a business communication consultant, a Saint Lucian Creole translator and speech coach, and an English teacher and department chair.[1]
Turnbull won the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry in 1991.[1]
Man-made destruction of hillside plants – even before St Lucia was threatened by Hurricane Maria in 2017 – moved Turnbull to write a children's book, Ti Koko and Kush Kush (2018), about an unlikely friendship in a Caribbean garden. At the book's launch, Turnbull called for more community support for literary artists.[2]
Works
edit- (ed.) Let's Take a Dip, by Alein O'Neil. Castries, St Lucia: UNESCO, 1984.
- (ed.) Boysie and the Genips, and other stories, by Jennie Wheatley. Kingston: UNESCO, 1984.
- Rugged Vessels: Poems, 1992
- Ti Koko and Kush Kush, Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers, 2018. Illustrated by Reuben Vanterpool.
- Ti Koko and Kush Kush, Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers, 2024 (Second Printing). Illustrated by Reuben Vanterpool.
References
edit- ^ a b Heather Smyth (2002). "Turnbull, Patricia". In Jane Eldridge Miller (ed.). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-415-15981-4.
- ^ 'I think we are the most ignored' - Local author Dr Patricia G. Turnbull, Virgin Island News Online, 20 February 2018. Accessed 6 July 2020.
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