Ironically, Brathwaite responded to the very thing that Eliot feared: the potential for social revolution in poetic fragmentation. For instance, Eliot renewed poetic language through his experiments with jazz rhythms and with working-class and dialect voices, but he himself deeply mistrusted what he regarded as the fragmentation of culture. Pollard does not say that the West Indian poets write like Eliot: Walcott and Brathwaite transformed Eliot's ideas and his poetic example beyond all recognition. For that reason, it makes sense for Pollard to introduce Eliot as a third term illuminating the other two. Brathwaite and Walcott responded to different things in Eliot, but they both heard things that were there. Eliot when they started as poets (they did not just read Eliot-they listened to him on recordings). Pollard calls this strategy modernist, and he attributes the West Indians' shared modernism to the selective listening that they did to T. In spite of their large differences, Walcott and Brathwaite have in common the strategy of juxtaposing parts in order to discern a whole, however provisional, that contains them. Walcott, feeling the lack of a cultural essence in the Caribbean, believed it was the task of the writer to create an identity from nothing but the ironic imitation and repetition of fragments. His analysis of how the two poets developed as poets in response to each other is the most careful and sound of any I know.īrathwaite's project was to recover an essential African identity for the Caribbean and to fashion a nation language that would restore a whole where there were only fragments. To regard Walcott and Brathwaite as the two poles of Caribbean poetry is, of course, a critical commonplace critics, however, have tended to favor one poet over the other or to regard them as entirely opposed to each other, and have relied too much on the poets' self-descriptions and manifestos, ignoring the poetry. Katrina was also a voluntary human rights law teacher to secondary school students as part of UCL’s Grassroots Human Rights Project.Charles Pollard argues that to appreciate Caribbean poetry-and, for that matter, language and culture in the West Indies-it is necessary to juxtapose Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott. Katrina’s was a Volunteer Tribunals Caseworker for Zacchaeus 2000 Trust, and attended the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) to represent appellants seeking to challenge the Department for Work and Pensions decisions to discontinue their Employment Support Allowance (ESA). In addition to criminal legal research, during her time as a Human Rights Officer at British Institute of Human Rights (‘BIHR’), Katrina led human rights law training sessions for health and social care workers, carers and those accessing care during the COVID-19 pandemic. At ARTICLE 19, Katrina worked on the hate speech regulation on social media platforms project. At JUSTICE, Katrina worked on the Prosecuting Sexual Offences Working Party and ‘Supporting Exonerees: ensuring accessible, continuing and consistent support’ report. Katrina has also previously worked as a Legal Research and Policy Intern at human rights charities, JUSTICE and ARTICLE 19. She worked on the Hate Crime Review Consultation Paper, with a specific focus on reforming hate speech legislation contained in the Public Order Act 1986 (“stirring up offences”) and the Football Offences Act 1991. She was a criminal law Research Assistant at the Law Commission for England and Wales from 2019-2020. Katrina has vast experience in criminal law and policy research. Katrina’s research memos and analysis were used at trial or as part of advice in some of these cases. Katrina attended Crown, Magistrates’ and Youth courts to assist counsel and clients. Katrina assisted Jenny Wiltshire (Head of the Serious and General Crime Team) in a range of high-profile matters such as terrorism, possession of firearms, sexual offences, fraud and bribery, and CCRC appeals (notably, the Stockwell Six appeal) and cases involving young and vulnerable defendants. Prior to joining the Bar, Katrina was a Criminal Paralegal at Hickman & Rose Solicitors.
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