Poet Yearwood steals the show

by John Sealy

Twenty-eight-year-old spoken word poet Mark Yearwood emerged standing tall when the curtain came down on the second annual PoeTree Barbados Bus Ah Rhyme competition held at the Bean N Bagel 2.0, Rockley, Christ Church recently.

Yearwood was among ten artistes challenged to perform a piece under the theme Folklore, in three minutes as celebrated throughout Barbados or the Caribbean: steel donkey, heartman, Bacoo etc.

The criteria were originality, use of voice, narrative development...