Marc Matthews

Marc Matthews
Born	1940s British Guiana
Other names	Tramping Man
Education	Queen's College
Occupation(s)	Writer, actor, broadcaster and producer
Notable work	Guyana My Altar
Awards	Guyana Prize for Literature (1987)

Marc Matthews (born 1940s) is a Guyanese writer, actor, broadcaster and producer.

Biography

Marc Matthews was born in British Guiana in the 1940s.

He was a co-director/founder of Jaiai Independent Broadcasting Unit, and with Peter Kempadoo produced Our Kind Of Folk for radio in Guyana. ^[1]

In the 1960s, Matthews was in London, England, as a freelance reporter.

In 1987, Matthews won the Guyana Prize ^[2] ,Guyana My Altar (Karnak House, 1987). His collection A Season of Sometimes was published by Peepal Tree Press in 1992. ^[3] His work has also been anthologized in collections such as The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry ^[4] (1992) and The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English. ^[5]

Around 2005, Matthews, working under the pseudonym "Tramping Man", formed a musical collaboration named Burn Brothers with two London-based producers, Jean Philippe Altier and Adam Hoyle. They were joined by saxophonist Florian Brand and performed a number of gigs in and around London in 2007. A record entitled Fire Exit was recorded and released in April 2008.

Selected bibliography

• Eleven O'Clock Goods, Kairi, 1974.
• Guyana My Altar (poetry), Karnak House, 1987.
• A Season of Sometimes, Peepal Tree Press, 1992

References

1. "Biography at Rupununi Music Festival". Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
2. "The long and short of The Guyana Prize", Guyana Chronicle Online, 12 January 2013.
3. A Season of Sometimes page Archived 29 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine at Peepal Tree Press.
4. Ian McDonald, Stewart Brown (eds), The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry, Heinemann Educational Books, 1992, pp. 132–134.
5. Paula Burnett (ed.), The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English, Penguin Books, 1986; Penguin Classics, 2005.

External links

• Marc Matthews – “Jumbie Picnic” video, Guyanese Online.
• "Small Boys" by Marc Matthews, Geoffrey Philp, 18 July 2008.
• Marc Matthews, "Guyana Not Ghana", 24 September 2008