Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

A Review of John Robert Lee’s Collected Poems 1975-2015

COLLECTED POEMS 1975-2015 by John Robert Lee represents one man’s spiritual journey meandering through thorny labyrinths of faith, “from…

Welcome to Male

Photo Copyright © 2017 by Horace I. Goddard. IN THE NORTH OF KENYA is Male. It is near the equator in the Rift Valley. The land is flat and…

A Review of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology

Admission by the editors of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology—that they are “two cricket-know nothings”—might tempt…

A Review of Brown Girl, Brownstones

Reading Paule Marshall's novel Brown Girl, Brownstones threw up a number of exciting firsts for me. It was the first time I was reading a…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, November 2017

News

The 2017 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List turns seven this year! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12 Barbadian books to…

Blog

Carifesta XIII Before and Beyond

Connecting and reconnecting at Carifesta: longtime colleagues and bibliophiles Nailah Folami Imoja of Barbados' contingent and Andy Taitt…

Fiction

WINNING WORDS: PEEZOFF IS DEAD (EXCERPT)

“Best eulogy I ever heard,” I heard over and again as I mingled with mourners at the entrance to the church. His family was excessive in…

Poetry

WINNING WORDS: Magnifying Glass

Barbados Barbados Spherical axis tilting Blue-green smears One second Pinpoint → United States of America • Barbados o (Yellow and blue…

Poetry

WINNING WORDS: To the Audubon Society

Put shit in your eye, right so I’d like to stuff ’em; sate my gypsy gullet. But bird’s brains are featherweight, better plied as dusters to…

Fiction

WINNING WORDS: Tameisha’s Lesson (Excerpt)

Chapter Two School Life “Anna Puckering?” “Present.” “Danika Reece?” “Here.” “Tameisha Rouse?… Tameisha Rouse?” “She isn’t here yet,…

News

Winning Words shows diversity of Bajan Lit

Terry Connolly’s cover photo, Soon Ripe, suggests the many branches of Bajan Lit. It won gold at NIFCA. WELCOME to the latest edition of…