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In 1945 he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, returning to England in 1953.[2] He worked as a freelance journalist in London and Madrid. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for Petroleum Times, becoming its editor. In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit.[3]Drayton was the author of one volume of poetry, Three Meridians (1950), and two novels: Christopher (1959), which was first published in part in Bim magazine,[2] and Zohara (1961). He also wrote short stories, such as “Mr Dombie the Zombie”, which was broadcast on the BBC programme Caribbean Voices.[2]Drayton later lived in Spain, where he died in 2017.[1]Table of ContentsNovels[edit]Poetry[edit]Short Stories[edit]Non-Fiction[edit]Criticism[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Novels[edit]Christopher, London: Collins, 1959; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1972.Zohara, London: Secker and Warburg, 1961.Poetry[edit]Three Meridians, Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1950.The Phantom, Bim, no.5 (February 1945), pg 32Strindbergian Sonata, Bim, no.6 pg 16Nostalgia, Bim, no.7 pg 52L’Infinito de Leopardi (Translated from the Italian), Bim, no.8 pg 6Memories, Bim, no.9 pg 12On An Etching By Picasso, Bim, no.9 pg 57The Ancient Carib, Bim, no.10 pg 116-117Singing Negress, Bim, no.11 pg 242Old Black Beggar, Bim, no.11 pg 246To The Poets Of The Caribbean, Bim, no.11 pg 248Morgan Lewis, Bim, no.13 pg 67Negro Divers, Bim, no.13 pg 67Double Game, Bim, no.13 pg 6Translation from Catallus (Lyrics No-72: On Lesbia’s Infidelity), Bim, no.14 pg 120Speculations On Uranium, Bim, no.16 pg 230The Star, Bim, no.17 pg 7The Cobbler, Bim, no.18 pg 106Short Stories[edit]Swiss Comedy, Bim, no.5 (February 1945), pgs 11-13, 57-59Dear Mother, Bim, no.6, pgs 27-28, 91-93No Honour Among Thieves, Bim, no.7, pgs 32-33, 105-107Narcissus, Bim, no.9, pgs 10-12Mr. Dombey, Bim, no.19, pgs 180-182Manrique, Bim, no.22, pgs 72-73Christopher, Bim, no.26, pgs 92-118The Redfern Farewell, Bim, no.27, pgs 159-162Sunset Over San Remo, Bim, no.31, pgs 173-175Shadow And Shape, Bim, no.32, pgs 224-227Return To The Island, Bim, no.40, pgs 252-256The Moon And The Fisherman, Bim, no.45, pgs 17-20Non-Fiction[edit]Farrago (Extracts from a notebook), Bim, no.12, pgs 281-287Revisiting Barbados, Bim, no.14, pgs 83-84Criticism[edit]A. N. Forde, “Christopher” (review), in Bim, vol. 8, no. 29 (June\/December 1951), p.\u00a064.John Harrison, “Three Meridians” (review), in Bim, vol. 4, no. 14 (June 1951), pp.\u00a0144\u20135.Kenneth Ramchand, “Terrified Consciousness”, in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, no. 7 (July 1969), pp.\u00a08\u201319.Derek Walcott, “Zohara” (review), in Trinidad Guardian, 12 November 1961, p.\u00a026.References[edit]^ a b Thomas Armstrong, “Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian literature”, Arts Etc.^ a b c “Drayton, Geoffrey”, Michael Hughes, A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, pp. 42\u20143.^ Robin Myers, ed., A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language from 1940 to 1970, Pergamon Press, 1978.External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/geoffrey-drayton-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Geoffrey Drayton – Wikipedia"}}]}]