I no longer teach the second-year optional course on Caribbean poetry, which is now taught by Monsieur Delmaire but, since I continue to read and promote Caribbean poetry and since there appears to be insufficient attention paid to Caribbean poetry on the Web, I have decided to maintain these pages as a modest resource centre for scholars and a place for readers of Caribbean poetry to exchange ideas. In addition, Derek Walcott's Collected Poems are on the optional literature course of the English Studies Agrégation this year. Though these pages are naturally open to ideas about the poetry of the Spanish, Dutch, American and French-speaking Caribbean, the main focus is on "the cricket-playing Caribbean".