Arts for the 21st Century

Anne Walmsley

Anne Walmsley

Anne Walmsley is an editor, scholar, critic, author, and specialist in Caribbean art and literature. She started her career working with Faber and Faber. Spent three years as a teacher at Westwood High School in Jamaica, before returning to the UK to work with BBC Schools television service and later with Longman, where she was employed for ten years as their first editor of Caribbean-focused writing, before moving to Nairobi as publishing editor for Longman Kenya. She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to research CAM, and was awarded a PhD from the University of Kent for her thesis, which was also published as a book entitled The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971.

SECOND C.A.M. CONFERENCE

A year ago I wrote about a beginning: how the idea of C.A.M. was born in a Bloomsbury flat, how monthly meetings were held and largely attended at the West Indian Students Centre, how a great conference was held at the University of Kent, at Canterbury. I called the article “First C.A.M. Conference”. I almost called this one “Last C. A. M. Conference”.

FIRST C.A.M. CONFERENCE

CA.M.'s formation, aims and objects were reported in the last Bim. I wonder how it sounded to Bim readers outside Britain: just another small, cosy talk-in of the elite of West Indian artists in exile? Certainly when Eddie Brathwaite outlined his plans for C.A.M. to a few friends in his Bloomsbury flat,
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