Belizean Poet

The Grandmaster

This is the third publication that Leroy “The Grandmaster” Young has published with Factory Books. The first was in 1999 a book called “Made In Pinks Alley,” the second, “Generation X in 2000.” Then Factory Books produced a video titled “Unshakkaled” in 2003 and with the accompanying CD recording of the video that same year. […]

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Chinchi Poems

Many visitors will read these words. You should know that you hold a small slice of one of Belize’s most prolific lyrical dub poet, known to his country people as The Grandmaster.  Born in Belize (1967) Leroy Young, the Grandmaster grew up in Belize City, specifically Pinks Alley. The cultural space where cruise tourists disembark

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