Bagadey

By Izzaak

BAGADEY
If the Africans freed by death
Were to revisit this cove where secrets slept
Maybe they would not recognize the bay
Maybe they would just turn their backs and fly away
A place of pleasant surprises, and not a few contradictions; navigate “d Bagadere” to discover more than meets the eye and ears!
How could the marines fathom
The secrets of the serene inlet
Unless its depths were plumbed
Many ah word has been written about life and living. Some are based on hearsay, but nothing can beat personal experience – whether yours or those related by others. A can’t put-down book, acknowledging men and women and events that have made Carriacou and Petite Martinique places of interests, despite the constraints of physical dimensions:
Dolly C arrive in port
What the Revolution stop just come back
Royal GPF conducting stop and search
This compilation of verse and prose opens an insight into the lives of individuals past and present, who have made an indelible mark on the lives of Carriacouans on land and sea. Jeffrey has put together a special edition that encapsulates the ethos of the Bagadere….
KIA In De Bagadere

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728326597

Izzaak

Jeffrey Izzaak is from Carriacou. Writing from a young age, he has published 3 collections of prose/poetry.

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© 2019 Jeffrey Brathwaite-Izzaak. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/11/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-2660-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-2659-7 (e)

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models,

and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

poetry%20pic_GS.jpg Poetry

A Karriacou Indigenous Art shore-print.

© Jeffrey Brathwaite-Izzaak, 2019

Other collections by the author:

Poetic Duty I

Poetic Duty 1.5

Tears of the Drum

Covers and sketches by Olga Miksche, Bristol, UK

Photo Credits (E. Stiell & G. Cayenne) – CPM in the Mainstream of the Revolution © 1981, Fedon Books

All other photos the property of the author

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Contents

Bagadere

The Shipwright

Allert By The Sea

Surging Waters (Fries)

Virginia By The Sea

Friday Evening Millionaires

Kayak Assets

Dan Ivan

Lucy For Darwin

Bess

Sands Dumfries

Andronicus Unmarked

Dumfries Oil Discovery

Carnival Legacy

Island Road (2019)

Landeed

Awash

I —Michael Caesar

II -— Dorothy

III — Ethan Mark

Overboard.

Bogo (ligi)

Man Chicko

Fallen Star

The Day You Gone

Livestrong

The Maroon

Charge Room

Bagadere Revised

Lamentation Of A Kayak Seaman

Sailing Away

Notes

About the Author

Its greem salt kingdom sweeps us out away steep down beyond our power

Beyond the camber of the keel where it’s too old for knowledge

The sea is ours- Kamau Brathwaite

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There is an extensive natural harbor, completely land-locked, adjoining Harvey Vale Bay on the south west of the island, which is famous for a delicious oyster found on the mangroves growing in the water.

The Grenada Handbook

Bagadere

I

Enter the gateway

Of mangrove touching tender the everglade corner

To kiss a panorama of stretched water

This inner pasture,

Mermaid’s playground

Hidden beaches of gravel and sand

With secrets beyond that beckon you come

Touch here

Search here

Bagadere

Oysters near, pearls sparkle in the wetland meadow

II

By a patch of white sand

Canute chanced upon

A lady fair

Corals of flowing wet hair

Painting him a prophecy

Odyssey from a blue sea

Sparking the obsession

Brush spun upon vivid imagination

Consider this reef of gifts

Dazzling