Poetry

If Barbados were a...

4 Love of Barbados, the project, has been up and running for just over a month.

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Terracotta tile featuring the name Deane among other tiles with surnames also starting with the letter D on the Wall of Names, Golden Square Freedom Park, Bridgetown, Barbados. Photo by LM Deane
Step back, step forward: A 4LB prose poem

ArtsEtc editor Linda M.

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Sonnets for Anthony Joseph

 

In Gaza or My Li'l House

By Linda M. Deane and Brian Franklin

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Girl Before Country by Cyndi Celeste, part of ArtsEtc's 20th Anniversary Chapbook Series.  Cover by Joshua Clarke, June 2023.Joshua
Two Poems from Girl Before Country

 

Blind Date

My Black
and my Caribbean
walk into a room
and the air is
still

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The True, True Mudda Sally, Illustration by Akaila Armstrong, 2023.
Three Poems

The True, True Mudda Sally.  Illustration Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong.

 

Love in the Time of Circular Chants 

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From the Archives: Word (on teaching a forty-year-old man to read)

 

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Last Saturday Night

 

 

Chorus

Saturday night, it was Saturday night

Saturday night, last Saturday night

 

VS 1

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Art by Gary Jerome Jones, pen and colour markers on card stock, 2022.
Two Poems

 

Subconscious Individuality  

A rocking horse soothes the internal rhythm 

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House in Castries, Saint Lucia.  Photo Copyright © 2022 by John Robert Lee.
Poems for Kendel @ 70

A City Affair
(for the Saint Lucian poets)

“Don’t you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain?” – Derek Walcott

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The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Winning Words: Resurrection 1

 

 

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