Lucian soul. Both creatively and in his work as information manager at the Folk Research Centre, he has continued to interact with forms that would in other hands be left to the sibilant hands of dust. He has worked in the media, as a columnist and reviewer, a poet, preacher— in a myriad of capacities. As poet (and otherwise) he has resembled his own creative conjuration, ‘the manbird’ with one foot firmly grounded on the St. Lucian soil, and the other suspended in air, acutely aware of the trajectory of the world filtered through his Christian faith, and his belief in the messages of its prophets; the approaching rapture. As Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott says, ‘He is a fine poet.’