Patricia Turnbull

Patricia G. Turnbull (born 1952) is a poet from Saint Lucia. In 1991, she was awarded the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry.

Life

Patricia Turnbull was born in Saint Lucia. She gained a BA at the University of the West Indies in 1974, and an MSc in English education from Syracuse University in 1986. She has worked as a business communication consultant, a Saint Lucian Creole translator and speech coach, and an English teacher and department chair.[1]

Turnbull won the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry in 1991.[1]

Man-made destruction of hillside plants – even before St Lucia was threatened by Hurricane Maria in 2017 – moved Turnbull to write a children's book, Ti Koko and Kush Kush (2018), about an unlikely friendship in a Caribbean garden. At the book's launch, Turnbull called for more community support for literary artists.[2]

Works
  • (ed.) Let's Take a Dip, by Alein O'Neil. Castries, St Lucia: UNESCO, 1984.
  • (ed.) Boysie and the Genips, and other stories, by Jennie Wheatley. Kingston: UNESCO, 1984.
  • Rugged Vessels: Poems, 1992
  • Ti Koko and Kush Kush, Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi, 2018. Illustrated by Reuben Vanterpool.

References
  1. Heather Smyth (2002). "Turnbull, Patricia". In Jane Eldridge Miller (ed.). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-415-15981-4.
  2. 'I think we are the most ignored' - Local author Dr Patricia G. Turnbull, Virgin Island News Online', 20 February 2018. Accessed 6 July 2020.


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