Blue-belonging: a discussion of Olive Senior's latest collection of poetry, over the roofs of the world

In the twelfth annual Philip Sherlock Lecture, delivered in February 2005 at the University of the West Indies ( Mona, Jamaica), Olive Senior spoke about the journey she had undertaken to becoming a woman-of-words, and established the connection between 'tradition and the individual talent' with the claim that the voice of individual talent in the Caribbean is one that necessarily draws upon oral and scribal cultures.