Marc Matthews (born 1940s) is a Guyanese writer, actor, broadcaster and producer.
Biography Marc Matthews was born in British Guiana in the 1940s.
He was a co-director/founder of Jaiai Independent Broadcasting Unit, and with Peter Kempadoo produced Our Kind Of Folk for radio in Guyana.
In the 1960s, Matthews was in London, England, as a freelance reporter.
In 1987, Matthews won the Guyana Prize"The long and short of The Guyana Prize", Guyana Chronicle Online, 12 January 2013. ,Guyana My Altar (Karnak House, 1987). His collection A Season of Sometimes was published by Peepal Tree Press in 1992.A Season of Sometimes page at Peepal Tree Press. His work has also been anthologized in collections such as The Heinemann Book of Caribbean PoetryIan McDonald, Stewart Brown (eds), The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry, Heinemann Educational Books, 1992, pp. 132–134. (1992) and The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English.Paula Burnett (ed.), The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English, Penguin Books, 1986; Penguin Classics, 2005.
Around 2005, Matthews, working under the pseudonym "Tramping Man", formed a musical collaboration named Burn Brothers with two London-based producers, Jean Philippe Altier and Adam Hoyle. They were joined by saxophonist Florian Brand and performed a number of gigs in and around London in 2007. A record entitled Fire Exit was recorded and released in April 2008.
Selected bibliography Eleven O'Clock Goods, Kairi, 1974. Guyana My Altar (poetry), Karnak House, 1987. A Season of Sometimes, Peepal Tree Press, 1992
References
External links Marc Matthews – “Jumbie Picnic” video, Guyanese Online. "Small Boys" by Marc Matthews, Geoffrey Philp, 18 July 2008. Marc Matthews, "Guyana Not Ghana", 24 September 2008