Dear Anson,
How welcome would be your descriptions of the journey through to the other side and what lies beyond the demise, eh? ....
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Small Island Memories of a World Poet: Tribute to Anson Gonzalez on Inscription of Works to UNESCO Memory of the World Registry of Latin American and the Caribbean.
How welcome would be your descriptions of the journey through to the other side and what lies beyond the demise, eh? ....
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Salutations. A minute of silence
for a friend, a colleague and a compatriot Mrs Marcia Henville who tried to positively
impact our environment with her words yet has had her life snuffed out in most
violent circumstances.
In this Carnival 2015 season in which we celebrate looseness,
vagabondism and hooliganism, isn’t it great that we can also find the time to
recognise and celebrate a BOSS – a Boss poet, a Boss writer, a Boss literary
critic, advocate and champion of the literary arts, Anson Gonzalez whose work
we are happy to here announce is now inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the
World Register.
It has made me reflective of what we can accomplish if we spend more
time celebrating what citizens like Anson represent to us: more poets and
writers to stir the public conscience; to give us a greater depth of ourselves
so we would have less of the kind of activities that led to the sad demise of
citizens like Marcia Henville, Dana Seetahal and others; and to celebrate those
who are alive too – collating and chronicling the fragments of experiences that
make us who we are:
I refer to those of not only the literary and documentary heritage:
among whom are men and women – and let me here recognise the invaluable work of
Mr Shamshu Deen, the Chair of this National Memory of the World Committee whose
body of work is itself worthy of inscription; but also collections from the
oral heritage: the Mighty Sparrow’s encyclopaedic renditions on our society is
one such that comes to mind.
I commend the outgoing national Memory of the World Committee which has
stirred us to this point that Trinidad and Tobago has six collections on the
International Memory of the World Register, seven collections on the Regional Memory
of the World Register & ten collections on the National Memory of the World
Register.
You have set high standards and large shoes for the new committee to
occupy and Mr Deen and committee I know you are well up to the task.
I know it is no simple task, especially in an environment where the
work and impact of artists and writers have so little resonance in the
financing and decision making fraternity.
I wish I could paint to you the picture on the faces of bankers and
insurers and countless others etc, when I tell them I am a writer, before they
ask me to define a real job – for which, when I qualify writing and research
and analysing and interpreting as media broaden and bring smiles of
understanding because that is a real job.
I told him if he adds my accumulated knowledge, experiences collated from more than 50 countries and more than 200 cities
across the world - explorations of connectivities between
our little island world and the big giant blue marble, he might have a
different picture; that my net worth might be less disturbing to him.
He said he was not referring to the ‘altrusitic’ elements that are knowledge in my head – elements that
have no value to people to whom are assigned the task of putting a ‘value’ to
our life’s work.
So what do we allow ourselves to be define as …Assets Altruistic, or
the banker’s bottom line.
So I am throwing out some challenges to you now – you the national
Memory of the World Committee and all others listening or reading this: I would
like you to join me in recommending and advocating for:
1.
A dedicated
and substantive enough so it can be effective - fund to support the acquisition
of collections and the work of those who are involved in collation, restoration
and digitisation of our valuable oral and documentary heritage
2. I
urge you to join me in the appeal for a national literary heritage centre that
will recognise the works of our poets and writers and oral bards and creators. It
remains a crying shame that a nation which can claim to have substantially
influenced not one but two – and I believe we may be the only small island
state which can claim such: that we do not have a single national element that
recognise our outstanding heritage: monument, museum, centre that is national
in scope and from which other nationals and the world can celebrate their
accomplishments – and I am not talking about the work of struggling NGOs and
individuals to do so: Little St Lucia, which shares Derek Walcott with us, and
Sir Arthur Lewis - has an annual Nobel Laureate Week. We do not have to look
far to see why and how we are failing as a nation, why the words with which we
are greeted in the morning papers and hourly and nightly news are of bloodshed
and horror.
Our newspapers are in fact losing their value as chroniclers of
ourselves and our history, and I say that with the full knowledge of someone
who has had a lifetime career in the media industry. Newspapers have
traditionally held such a key role of chronicling our society; as chroniclers
of history. In my thesis and first book Finding
A Place, I turned to newspapers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries to reconstruct a literary history of
Trinidad and Tobago, the birth of a literary tradition in the context of
strongly oral ones as Finding A Place (2000) explores. Is what we are seeing in
the overriding obsession of our news the legacies of ourselves we are leaving.
Does it really reflect who and what we are? Are we just the slew of negatives
that greet us every morning? And on the nightly and intermittent during the day
news? I say that in full knowledge, too, of having lived the challenges and pressures on an editor and journalist, and trying
to balance the competing interests and demands to be served, and fully
convinced that there is an alternate reality to us than that, represented, in
part, in the fraternity of nation-builders that Anson Gonzalez belong to. I
remain convinced that the media can have a tremendously positive impact on our
society and that without sacrificing profit or sales turnovers.
3.
My fourth recommendation, is that we continue to
develop partnerships to retrieve, digitise and have access to collections that
are in other parts of the world
If we do not understand what we possess that we can hold them up as
mirror images of ourselves – how can we develop policies and solutions – for
crime, for social development, for education.
That is why I believe the task of this National Memory of the World Committee,
filing as it is that gap through this programme offered by UNESCO, is so
pertinent.
The former committee has set the bar very high bar for you to follow.
And there are many, many collections out there that are worthy of inscriptions. You may
want to look at ways in which collation around themes can help accommodate the
volume.
I now turn my attention to the man of the moment: Anson Gonzales who
cannot be here with us today but his work is all around us.
Even as he is at the Marie Curie hospice, he refuses to succumb to the
environment of people at the end of their lives, a continuous and active presence
on social media.
The collection documents the public and private life of a Caribbean
laureate, literary activist, photographer, actor, educator and mentor.
As I said, we who write can’t have one profession, you know, because
our world does not allow one to be just a poet, or just a writer, as we well
know.
Anson’s work, culling the future voices, launching the promising voices
and a collection reference of poetry in
the 1924 to 2012,with more than a 2000
poetry books, photo albums and manuscripts from notable writers whose names
resonate of the who’s who in Caribbean literature; like Jan Carew, Andrew
Salkey, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Mervyn Morris and others authors across not
just the Caribbean, but the wider diasporas of North America, Europe, Africa and
Asia -all places which are part of the memory of our little island world.
Anson spearheaded the introduction of national annual poetry day,
observed on October 15.
As he moved to Wales to live with his daughter, mindful of the gap I
spoke of about: a national centre for the literary arts: Anson opened his house
Sapphire House to remain as a memory and museum of his works – the house which
culled a culture of poetry in Trinidad and Tobago and made hundreds of writers
and poets and authors feel like they have
a place in this world: how that phrase rings out from our literature:
resembling titles of books by Selvon, Naipaul and others - small island men and women with big dreams ….
All thriving, as Selvon told me in an interview once, to write the big
one; to write the quintessential Caribbean story featuring the quintessential
Caribbean persona.
I close with reading not from one of his works of poetry but one of his
recent postings on social media: from
his Facebook page – again he is expanding form to function, resonating with the
poignancy of his poetry.
He writes on Jan 2:
New Years Day 2015:
So I am in a lovely little
hospital run by the Marie Curie organisation. The New Year bells ring out and
the fireworks blast with roaring brilliance. But here in this hospital for
palliative treatment of heart failure and cancer patients, all is quiet, for
while some of the patients waited with expectation, they were mostly asleep
induced by exhaustion and medications, ent …when the fireworks started and the
bells pealed jubilantly.
In this place where they try to
keep us comfortable in the last stages of complication, are happy to celebrate
each moment that we are still present. Another phone call or chat with
relatives, and another encounter with children and grandchildren lifts the
gloom off the end stage patients.
I waited but missed the moment as
sleep overcame the exhausted Superman …speaking to my family and exchanging
greetings were a fitting closure of one year and the beginning of another
For some time I have settled into
my fate karma. I have to face the reason why I’m in this hospital/ward. My
body, the organism, of course will hold on and struggle till the last minute,
while life burgeons and proliferates outside this universe/
I, Soul, sees just another day at
the office of karma, faith will be tested often but time will march on
inexorably. There will be new dawns and New Years.
How timely it is, that even as he is celebrated, as we celebrate his
immortality, he reminds us of the ever present mortality: That we are all
mortal --- leaders of business, leaders of NGOs, of politics … we do not
possess office, we just occupy them temporarily
So what are we leaving to the memory of the world; the world’s memory
of us?
That now is the challenge of the National Memory of the world Committee
to define.
I am convinced, and have over the past decades been accumulating the
evidence from across disciplines that the memory of Trinidad and Tobago is the
memory of the world; that our small islands at the centre of world history in
many ways. Can you count the ways?
That is the task of our memory of the world committee. Help us restore
our sense of wholeness to ourselves.
Address on Inscription of Anson Gonzalez Collection to UNESCO Regional
Registry of UNESCO Memory of the World, Port of Spain and Launch by Dr Kris
Rampersad, Chair, National Commission for UNESCO of Trinidad and Tobago.
February 2015
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Apr 30, 2010 'How we vote is not how we party.' At 'all inclusive' fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian David Rudder's elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: The human face of constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional stagnation but brimming over with ... http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Trini politics is d best
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Apr 07, 2013
Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we've had the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of direction that will drive ...
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Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2.
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Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor's New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an ... Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM ...
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Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy series, The Emperor's New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political ...
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Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy series, The Emperor's New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political ...
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Apr 22, 2014
It is placing increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity, gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed the institution best positioned to consolidate the ..... The Emperor's New Tools ...
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Jun 15, 2010
The Emperor's New Tools. Loading... AddThis. Bookmark and Share. Loading... Follow by Email. About Me. My Photo · Kris Rampersad. Media, Cultural and Literary Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Practitioner. View my ...
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