Background
Gray was born in Portuguese of Spain, Trinidad, in 1923, and also lived in Jamaica.
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Cecil Gray
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Career
He now resides in Canada. He obtained a teacher’s certificate and an external degree from London University. Foreign over a decade, he served as a Senior Lecturer then as Director of the In-Service Diploma in Education Programme at the Mona and Saint Augustine campuses of the University of the West Indies.
Gray"s first book of poetry, The Woolgatherer, was largely autobiographical and was published by Peepal Tree Press in 1994.
Since then he has published several subsequent collections, including Lillian"s Songs (1996), Leaving the Dark (1998), Plumed Palms (2000), Careenage (2003), Only the Waves (2005), Possession (2009), and Lighthouses (2011). His poetry has also been published in the literary journals Bim and Savacou and in anthologies of Caribbean literature.
His reading and literature textbooks include Bite In, Language for Life, and Swing Into English, as well as West Indian Poetry: An Anthology for Schools (with Kenneth Ramchand). Most important, his efforts contributed significantly to the introduction and integration of West Indian literature into the official curriculum of West Indian secondary schools.
