Wilson Harris: A Selected Bibliography of His Works

Early Fiction, Poetry, and Essays

Except for some additional details, this section relies on Contributions to Kyk-Over-Al: 1945–61, the bibliography of Harris’s early writing compiled by Reinhard W. Sander and published in Hena Maes-Jelinek’s Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World (Brussels: Didier, 1975), 175–76. It was also published in her Wilson Harris (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 180–81, as well as in her Wilson Harris: The Uncompromising Imagination (Aarhus: Dangaroo Press, 1991), 250–51.

“Tell Me Trees! What Are You Whispering?” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 1 (Dec. 1945): 10. Also in 19 (Year-end 1954): 91–91.

“Tomorrow” (Fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 1 (Dec. 1945): 30–34.

“Savannah lands” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 2 (June 1946): 8. Also in 19 (Year-end 1954): 76.

“Words Written Before Sunset” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 3 (Dec. 1946): 9.

“Studies in Realism” (Poems). Kyk-Over-Al 4 (June 1947): 20–21. Contains “Village in America” and “The Tragic Muse.”

“Fences Upon the Earth” (Fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 4 (June 1947): 20–21.

“Quiet’s Event” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 5 (Dec. 1947): 8.

“Green is the Colour of the World” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 6 (June 1948): 7–8.

“The Guiana Book by A.J. Seymour” (Review). Kyk-Over-Al 7 (Dec. 1948): 37–40.

“In Memoriam 1948” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 7 (Dec. 1948): 5–6.

“Spring Equinox (Two Sections from a Poem Sequence)” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 8 (June 1949): 5–6.

“Palace of the Stillborn” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 9 (Dec. 1949): 21–22.

“The Reality of Trespass” (Non-fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 9 (Dec. 1949): 32.

“Review” (On Denis Williams’s Paintings). Kyk-Over-Al 9 (Dec. 1949): 32.

“Art and Criticism” (Non-fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 13 (Year-end 1951): 202–05. Rpt. in Tradition, the Writer and Society.

“Orpheus” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 14 (Mid-year 1952): 38.

“Other Dimensions” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 14 (Mid-year 1952): 39.

“The Question of Form and Realism in the West Indian Artist” (Non-fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 15 (Year-end 1952): 23–27. Rpt. in Tradition, the Writer and Society.

“The Fabulous Well” (Poems). Kyk-Over-Al 15 (Year-end 1952): 48–55. Contains “The Well (Prologues of Creations,” “The Mute at the Well (Re-creation of the Senses), “The Vision at the Well,” “Charcoal (Epilogue to the Senses: The Heart),” “Agamemnon,” “Rice (Further Prologues of Creation).” Rpt., with revisions, in Eternity to Season (1954, 1978). “Charcoal,” with revisions, also in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English, ed. Paula Burnett (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 185.

“The Beggar is King” (Poems). Kyk-Over-Al 17 (Year-end 1953): 228–34. Contains “The Suit: Antaeus,” “Prometheus (The Vindication of Earth).” Rpt., with revisions, inEternity to Season (1954, 1978). “

Bim No. 17 (Vol. 5, No. 17, Dec., 1952)” (Review). Kyk-Over-Al 16 (Mid-year 1953): 195–98.

“The Spirit of the Place” (Poems). Kyk-Over-Al 17 (Year-end 1953): 228–34. “The Muse on the Trail,” “Spirit of the Labyrinth,” “Spirit of the Fall,” “The Golden Age,” “Laocoon,” “Creation.” Rpt., with revisions, in Eternity to Season (1954, 1978). “Laocoon” also in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English, ed. Paula Burnett (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 185–86.

“Bouquet for Burrowes” (Non-fiction). Kyk-Over-Al 18 (Mid-year 1954): 8–9.

“Banim Creek” (Extract from an unpublished novel). Kyk-Over-Al 18 (Mid-year 1954): 36–42.

“These Are the Words of an Old Man” (Poem from Play). Kyk-Over-Al 19 (Year-end 1954): 117.

“The Chorus” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 19 (Year-end 1954): 129.

“The Sun (Fourteen Poems in a Cycle).” Kyk-Over-Al 20 (Mid-year 1955): 175–82.

“Two Periods in the Work of a West Indian Artist” (On Denis Williams’s Paintings). Kyk-Over-Al 20 (Mid-year 1955): 183–87.

“Poems by Leo I. Austin” (Review). Kyk-Over-Al 20 (Mid-year 1955): 205–06.

“The Death of Hector, Tamer of Horses” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 22 (1957): 23–24.

“The Stone of the Sea” (Poem). Kyk-Over-Al 22 (1957): 24...