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Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist.

Geoffrey Drayton
Born	(1924-02-13)13 February 1924[1] near Bridgetown, Barbados
Died	2017 (aged 92–93) Spain
Occupation	Writer, novelist, essayist, poet
Nationality	Barbadian
Notable works	Christopher (London: Collins, 1959), Zohara (Secker & Warburg, 1961)

Life

Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945 he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, returning to England in 1953.[2] He worked as a freelance journalist in London and Madrid. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for Petroleum Times, becoming its editor. In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit.[3]

Drayton was the author of one volume of poetry, Three Meridians (1950), and two novels: Christopher (1959), which was first published in part in Bim magazine,[2] and Zohara (1961). He also wrote short stories, such as "Mr Dombie the Zombie", which was broadcast on the BBC programme Caribbean Voices.[2]

Drayton later lived in Spain, where he died in 2017.[1]

Works

Novels

• Christopher, London: Collins, 1959; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1972.
• Zohara, London: Secker and Warburg, 1961.

Poetry

• Three Meridians, Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1950.
• The Phantom, Bim, no.5 (February 1945), pg 32
• Strindbergian Sonata, Bim, no.6 pg 16
• Nostalgia, Bim, no.7 pg 52
• L'Infinito de Leopardi (Translated from the Italian), Bim, no.8 pg 6
• Memories, Bim, no.9 pg 12
• On An Etching By Picasso, Bim, no.9 pg 57
• The Ancient Carib, Bim, no.10 pg 116-117
• Singing Negress, Bim, no.11 pg 242
• Old Black Beggar, Bim, no.11 pg 246
• To The Poets Of The Caribbean, Bim, no.11 pg 248
• Morgan Lewis, Bim, no.13 pg 67
• Negro Divers, Bim, no.13 pg 67
• Double Game, Bim, no.13 pg 6
• Translation from Catallus (Lyrics No-72: On Lesbia's Infidelity), Bim, no.14 pg 120
• Speculations On Uranium, Bim, no.16 pg 230
• The Star, Bim, no.17 pg 7
• The Cobbler, Bim, no.18 pg 106

Short Stories

• Swiss Comedy, Bim, no.5 (February 1945), pgs 11-13, 57-59
• Dear Mother, Bim, no.6, pgs 27-28, 91-93
• No Honour Among Thieves, Bim, no.7, pgs 32-33, 105-107
• Narcissus, Bim, no.9, pgs 10-12
• Mr. Dombey, Bim, no.19, pgs 180-182
• Manrique, Bim, no.22, pgs 72-73
• Christopher, Bim, no.26, pgs 92-118
• The Redfern Farewell, Bim, no.27, pgs 159-162
• Sunset Over San Remo, Bim, no.31, pgs 173-175
• Shadow And Shape, Bim, no.32, pgs 224-227
• Return To The Island, Bim, no.40, pgs 252-256
• The Moon And The Fisherman, Bim, no.45, pgs 17-20

Non-Fiction

• Farrago (Extracts from a notebook)', Bim, no.12, pgs 281-287
• Revisiting Barbados, Bim, no.14, pgs 83-84

Criticism

• A. N. Forde, "Christopher" (review), in Bim, vol. 8, no. 29 (June/December 1951), p. 64.
• John Harrison, "Three Meridians" (review), in Bim, vol. 4, no. 14 (June 1951), pp. 144–5.
• Kenneth Ramchand, "Terrified Consciousness", in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, no. 7 (July 1969), pp. 8–19.
• Derek Walcott, "Zohara" (review), in Trinidad Guardian, 12 November 1961, p. 26.

References

External links

• Thomas Armstrong, "Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian literature", Arts Etc.

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