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“Caribbean poetry’s new wave,” Bocas Lit Fest 2017 panel discussion with Ishion Hutchinson, Safiya Sinclair and Rajiv Mohabir,
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NGC Bocas Lit Fest at Seven

Part of “Caribbean poetry’s new wave”: Ishion Hutchinson, Safiya Sinclair and Rajiv Mohabir. Photo Copyright © 2017 by Bocas Lit Fest. MAKE…

Philip Nanton·May 13, 2017
ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane with top 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Kerry Belgrave. Between them is then Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados DeLisle Worrell, January 2017.
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Kerry Belgrave 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

ArtsEtc Editor and 2nd-place Colly winner Linda M. Deane with top awardee Kerry Belgrave. Between them is then Governor of the Central Bank…

Robert Edison Sandiford·April 24, 2017
ArtsEtc intern Racquel Griffith in China, circa January 2017, on scholarship.
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China, The Dragon that Breathes New Perspectives

ArtsEtc intern Racquel Griffith: touching the dragon with one hand while still grasping The Broken Trident with the other. Photo Copyright…

Racquel Griffith·March 27, 2017
Derek Walcott (1930-2017).
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FOR DEREK WALCOTT, 1930-2017

Derek Walcott, riding the waves. Photo Copyright © 2016. "…For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 17, 2017
Barbadian musician and cultural activist Adrian "Boo" Husbands, who passed away January 19, 2017.
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Riding De Culture Train with Adrian “Boo” Husbands, one last time

Adrian "Boo" Husbands: a Barbadian cultural force. Photo Copyright © 2017. PICTURE IT. Black Rock Cultural Centre in the 1980s. Richard…

Linda M. Deane·February 25, 2017
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Hobby, Profession, Industry: On Being and Becoming a Writer

"The myth of the suffering artist is a myth. Suffering may inspire great art, but nutrition, sleep and security will take it from…

Karen Lord·January 29, 2017
Martin Boyce in Japan.
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“Occasional Writer” Wins 2016 Carolle Bourne Award

MARTIN M. BOYCE, a self-styled occasional writer, is the winner of The Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation for 2016. Boyce won…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 13, 2016
Trump meeting Obama in the Oval Office, November 2016, post-US elections.
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The Revolution Is Definitely Being Televised (But who will be watching?)

President-elect Donald Trump (left) and outgoing President Barack Obama shake hands in the Oval Office post-US elections. Much will need to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 4, 2016
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A Review of Island Wings: A Memoir

During the 50s and 60s—after the Second World War, before independence—hundreds of Barbadians left their island home for countries like…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 1, 2016
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A Review of In the Castle of my Skin

GEORGE LAMMING has achieved what few in this country would have thought possible. His novel In the Castle of my Skin elevates our common…

Karen Lord·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Noughts & Crosses

The cultural critic Imran Siddiquee, writing for The Atlantic, once commented, “If the United States were to truly transform into a…

Jasmine Sealy·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Anatomy of a Scream

The peculiar dichotomy that is evident in Anatomy of a Scream (Pudding House Press, 30pp, 2007) suggests there is a beauty and redemption…

Mark Jason Welch·November 27, 2016
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