Dr Michael Gilkes, the Guyanese poet, actor, playwright, director, literary critic. He died this morning in England, aged 86, after three nights in ICU, from CoVid19. His seminal thesis offers the most important interpretation of the work of Wilson Harris. His play A Pleasant Career, about the life and fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, won the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992. Joanstown and other poems, a collection of poetry, won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. He won the Guyana Prize for Drama again in 2006 for his play The Last of the Redmen. As Drayton notes, he last gift to us is the film “Maira and the Jaguar People” (2019). It was directed and produced in collaboration with the Makushi community of Surama, North Rupununi, Guyana. He made a tremendous contribution to the world of arts in Guyana and the wider Caribbean. Walk good, Michael. 🙏🏽