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KAMAU 85
FOREWORD TO KAMAU 85, AN ARTSETC SPECIAL
KAMAU 85 – EDITORS' NOTE
WELCOME TO KAMAU 85
The Editors
LINDA M. DEANE
Robert Edison Sandiford
ADVENTURES IN EVERYTHING
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WRITERS AS OUR GUIDES...
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GREEN READINGS
THE PREMIER GUIDE NEWSLETTER
No. 4: The All-Movie Issue
No. 3: Masters of the Hypa Verse
No. 2: Treasure Island
No. 1: The Jazz-Art Connection
No. 25: The Gone Fishin' Issue
Nos. 23 & 24: Vanishing times ’n’ signs
No. 22: Overblown Trumpets
No. 21: Value-added design
THE INDYLIST REVIEWS
Frank Collymore Literary Award Winners In Print
Labours Uphill: A Review of The Philosophy & Opinions of the $2 Philosopher!! by Nala
Foremost Black Rockian: A Review of Down Danesbury Gap
A Review of Volcano
A Review of What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You
A Review of Shabine and Other Stories
A Review of Riff: The Shake Keane Story
A Review of Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow
A Review of Pick of the Crop
A Review of Ancestors
A Review of Natives of My Person
A Review of Watching Out for Mummy
A Review of Prickett's Well
A Review of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology
A Review of Brown Girl, Brownstones
A Review of Anatomy of a Scream
The 2024 IndyList
News
KAMAU GALLERY 1
In Memoriam: Hubert Lawrence (1960-2024)
In Golden Square: A Photo Essay
Latest Winning Words Focuses on "Our Uncertain Times"
Christine Barrow 2023 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner
Peter Laurie 2022 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner
Ronald A. Williams 2021 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner
Linda M. Deane 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner
Missing Paule Marshall: A Tribute
Editorial: After Elections, Barbadians Must Learn to Move Forward
Anthony Kellman's Tracing JaJa Wins 2018 Casa de las Americas Prize
"Occasional Writer" Wins 2016 Carolle Bourne Award
The Carolle Bourne Award
Austin Clarke: Sail on, Prince of Tides
In Memoriam: Sonia Suzette Williams
Bajan Lit Radio Show on Q100.7
FEATURES
KAMAU GALLERY 2
ESSAYS
The Light of Dawn
Winning Words: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, Re: #NelsonMustGo
Winning Words: Heinz 57, Maybe?
Winning Words: On Race and Whiteness from the Context of Barbados #1
The Beautiful and the Authentic: A Review of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Winning Words: Ode to the Bajan Blackbirds
Lessons from Poetry: Complaint and Sorrow in Kamau Brathwaite’s Liviticus
Writing the Caribbean Superhero Novel
FREEDOM SERIES
Freedom: The Class of 2020
Freedom: The Class of 2021
Keeping Track
Comics & Cartoons
THE GATHERING: Barbados’ strike force against the COVID-19 pandemic
Skool Daze, March 2018
Skool Daze, November 2017
Skool Daze, September 2016
Skool Daze, June 2016
Skool Daze, April 2016
Skool Daze, DECEMBER 2015
Skool Daze, July 2015
Skool Daze, May 2015
Skool Daze, May 2013
The AE Blog
Living, Loving and Leaving this Hyphenated Life
The Truth about Bajan Theatre
Finding the Third Way
Of Conditional Empathy
Hamas-Israeli Conflict Costly "Wake-up Call"
Transcending Translation: A UNESCO Transcultura Experience
What Is a Ridley Greene?
20 in 20 (plus one to grow on)
How It Feels to Turn Twenty Again
Bajans Not So Retiring
Voting for Real: The Weight and Measure of an X
What black mothers go through every George Floyd time
Long Roads Home
Caressing Space
NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2018--Day by Day
Moving on up to Wakanda with Black Panther
A Trip Well Made: for A.N., Karl and William Seymour
4 LOVE OF BARBADOS: AN UPDATE
The AE Blog 2010-2013
Mapping Barbados' LitScape
21 Quick Facts about Bajan Lit
#20 (on hearing about the latest murder, this time at Sheraton Mall)
NOMMONNOMM
On This Hideout Faintly, A Beating of Drums
Hobby, Profession, Industry: On Being and Becoming a Writer
Poetry
Kamau Gallery 3
Main Gallery
Sonnets for Anthony Joseph
Two Poems from Girl Before Country
Three Poems
Two Poems
Poems for Kendel @ 70
Winning Words: Dear White People
Winning Words: Exhaustive Listening
Winning Words: If Only on the Outside/If Only on the Inside
Winning Words: Resurrection 1
A selection from An Ocean Away: My Mother, Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory
Ode to the Christmas Breeze
Winning Words: automated reality
Winning Words: Home
Castles
Grief
Behind The Wall
Seeing is Believing
A Drought Ended
From the Archives: Word (on teaching a forty-year-old man to read)
Last Saturday Night
WINNING WORDS: Magnifying Glass
Winning Words: SPEAKING TOMAS
Winning Words: Transhood
Haiku Gallery
Love Was
Haiku at 70
If Barbados were a...
Step back, step forward: A 4LB prose poem
Truth She Wrote — A Found Poem and Collected Thoughts on Toni Morrison
FICTION
KAMAU GALLERY 4
Main Gallery
Tasha's Cou-Cou, An Excerpt from CircleSquare
Those Are Pearls
Winning Words: A Bajan Love Story
Winning Words: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Winning Words: The Woman Whose Laugh Cracked the Sky
Ghosts of Petticoats (A Dramatic Monologue)
Imogene
Snowball Effect
The Economist, an excerpt
WINNING WORDS: PEEZOFF IS DEAD (EXCERPT)
WINNING WORDS: Tameisha's Lesson
Winning Words: The Night You Left
Winning Words: TURPENTINE AND STEW PANTY
Winning Words: MR GARRAWAY’S TRINKETS AND TREASURES
Winning Words: BIRD-TREES
FORUM
KAMAU GALLERY 5
WAVELINE FOR KAMAU
PRAYERS AT THE BEACH
VISUALIZING THE RESPONSE
WORD, SOUND, IMAGE
STUDIOS
John Robert Lee: Just What Is
Sharon Hurley Hall: Doing What Feels Right
Philip Nanton: Seeing Slantwise
Annalee Davis: Wild Tings
Robert Edison Sandiford
Zoanne Evans: The Kids in Action Story
Amanda Haynes: Finding Balance
Golah Smithen-Victor: Facets
Esther Phillips: Vast Interiors
Barbados Museum & Historical Society: Hyping the Space
Anthony Kellman: Praising Jaja
Sharon Milagro Marshall: Captured by Words
Peter "Adonijah" Alleyne: Coming Again
Neil Sorhaindo: Artist's Covenant
Ann Rudder: "Before I'm Dead"
Mustardseed Productions: Two for Two
The Barbados Arts Council: Our Very Own at 60
Taisha Carrington: "The Lynching of an Identity"
WAYNE ONKPHRA WELLS: In the Woodsman's Enchanted Forest
Rodney Aarons-Massiah: Never Fold
ALISON CHAPMAN-ANDREWS: DRY SEASON
ArtsEtc's 20th anniversary in 20 - more or less!
Bim LitFest in 30
Karen Elaine Austin
CONTACT
Art Friends & Partners
Submissions
4 love of Barbados - Questions
KAMAU 85
FURTHER, RECOMMENDED & REQUIRED READING
THE KAMAU 85 TEAM
AE Studios
ArtsEtc's 20th anniversary in 20 - more or less!
John Robert Lee: Just What Is
Sharon Hurley Hall: Doing What Feels Right
Philip Nanton: Seeing Slantwise
Robert Edison Sandiford
Annalee Davis: Wild Tings
Zoanne Evans: The Kids in Action Story
Amanda Haynes: Finding Balance
Golah Smithen-Victor: Facets
Esther Phillips: Vast Interiors
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