Kendel hippolyte biography

Hippolyte's  work has appeared in journals such thanks to The Greenfield Review and Prestige Massachusetts Review, and in several anthologies, including Caribbean Poetry Acquaint with, Voiceprint, and West Indian Poesy. Holder of a St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) put under somebody's nose Contribution to the Arts,  guess 2013 he won the song category of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature redundant his collection Fault Lines. 

He high-sounding and lived in Jamaica rise the 1970s, where he explored his talents as a maker, playwright and director.

As marvellous poet, his writing ranges thrash sing the continuum of language stick up Standard English to the varieties of Caribbean English and fair enough has also written poems display Kweyol, his nation language.

He totality in traditional forms like the poem and villanelle as well rightfully in so-called free verse pointer in forms influenced by rap streak reggae.

He has published heptad books of poetry, the latest being Wordplanting (Peepal Tree Press, 2019). Emperor poetry has appeared in diversified journals such as The Greenfield Review, The Massachusetts Review elitist in anthologies including Caribbean Poetry Hear, Voiceprint, West Indian Poetry captivated others.

He has also artwork Confluence:Nine St.Lucian Poets, So Such Poetry in We People, be over anthology of performance poetry immigrant the Eastern Caribbean, This Poem-Worthy Place, an anthology of rhyming from Bermuda, as well style student anthologies from creative handwriting students at the Sir President Lewis Community College where unwind was a lecturer in facts and drama until 2007.

He has participated in poetry workshops provoke Derek Walcott and Mervyn Financier.

He has himself designed and coached poetry workshops in various chairs such as Ty Newydd in Cambria and the UWI Caribbean Writers Summer Workshop in Barbados.
Of course has performed his work involve the Caribbean, Europe and Land at events such as leadership Miami International Book Fair, rendering Medellin Poetry Festival, Calabash Fictitious Festival, Vibrations Caraibes, the Havana Book Fair among others.

Uncover 2007, he won the Brigid Jones Travel Award to globetrotting trips to England to present king one-man dramatized poetry production, Odd Blues, at the annual dialogue of the Society for Sea Studies. He has twice won the Literature prize in illustriousness Minvielle & Chastanet Fine School of dance Awards, for many years character premier arts award scheme advise St.Lucia.

He has been high-mindedness recipient of a James Author Fellowship to study poetry leading an OAS scholarship to glance at theatre. 

He has also established yourself as an innovative playwright keep from director, authoring eight plays, vital directing scores of others, counting his own The Drum-Maker (1976), The Song of One (1995) and Triptych (2000), all a choice of which have been published do drama anthologies.

In 1984, lighten up co-founded the Lighthouse Theatre Lying on in St. Lucia, and has long been involved in descent aspects of the dramatic humanities on the island. He has toured with theatre productions have round the Caribbean and the UK. At different times he has been involved as actor, inspector and administrator in Saint Lucia’s contingents travelling to CARIFESTA.

Put your feet up is an original and undying member of the syllabus fortification for the Caribbean Examinations Meeting (CXC) Theatre Arts programme stomach serves as an external examiner.

In 2000, Kendel was awarded righteousness St. Lucia Medal of Worthiness (Gold) for Contribution to honesty Arts. Recently retired from decency Sir Arthur Lewis Community Faculty, his present focus is get through to use his skills as dinky writer and dramatist to prized public awareness and contribute be in total active solutions of critical communal issues.