Family Album - Poems by Ian McDonald - Hardcover

by Ian McDonald (Author), Robin McDonald (Editor)

This precious book of heartfelt poems from the pen of one of the Caribbean region's leading poets, Ian McDonald, reflects his love of life and of all whom he holds dear.

His beloved wife Mary is the muse whose inspirational influence can be sensed throughout the work's pages.

McDonald, ever the family historian, invites the reader to meet his cherished family members: from ancestors long past, to parents, wife, children and grandchildren.

Ian McDonald, author of the Hummingbird Tree and 12 books of poetry, is the holder of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of the West Indies, winner of the Guyana Prize of Literature for four years and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1970. He was born in Trinidad in 1933 and lives in Guyana. He is married to Mary and has three sons.