Ian Dieffenthaller

Ian Dieffenthaller grew up in and around San Fernando, Trinidad, trained as an architect at Bristol and acquired his PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has written on West Indian and West Indian British poetry for journals such as Wasafiri, PNR and Mango Season. He edited and introduced Rivers of Time, the collected poems of Cy Grant (London: Naked Light, 2008) and his essay on Linton Kwesi Johnson appears in Bridges Across Chasms (Liege: L3, 2004). He is currently working on the first...See more

Ian Dieffenthaller grew up in and around San Fernando, Trinidad, trained as an architect at Bristol and acquired his PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has written on West Indian and West Indian British poetry for journals such as Wasafiri, PNR and Mango Season. He edited and introduced Rivers of Time, the collected poems of Cy Grant (London: Naked Light, 2008) and his essay on Linton Kwesi Johnson appears in Bridges Across Chasms (Liege: L3, 2004). He is currently working on the first anthology of Trinidad and Tobago poetry since 1947. See less