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Jun 07, 1927 Georgetown, Demerara Mahaica, Guyana Died on 13 Dec 1997 (aged 70)
Guyanese poet
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About Martin Carter
- Martin Wylde Carter (7 June 1927 – 13 December 1997) was a Guyanese poet and political activist.
- Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important poets of the Caribbean region, Carter is best known for his poems of protest, resistance and revolution.
- He played an active role in Guyanese politics, particularly in the years leading up Independence in 1966 and those immediately following.
- He was famously imprisoned by the British government in Guyana (then British Guiana) in October 1953 under allegations of "spreading dissension", and again in June 1954 for taking part in a PPP procession.
- Shortly after being released from prison the first time, he published his best-known poetry collection, Poems of Resistance from British Guiana (1954).
