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Poetry

Winning Words: Transhood

Anthology preview; winner of the 2014 Carolle Bourne Prize for Innovation Full, round belly in eighty-six Divined as girl by Reading linea…

Adrienne Callender·July 7, 2015
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News

More provocative Bajan Winning Words

The ArtsEtc Winning Words Anthology: NIFCA 2013/2014 is now out! The anthology, which features some searing, provocative and thoughtful…

Linda Deane·July 6, 2015
Alison Chapman-Andrews
Studios

ALISON CHAPMAN-ANDREWS: DRY SEASON

DUST, HEAT and smells drift into every corner of the living room. Too many animals cross the yard: monkeys, cats, chickens. Today we…

Linda Deane·May 28, 2015
Kamau (2003); Photograph by Kingsley Roberts for ArtsEtc,
Studios

WORDS, SOUNDS, IMAGES: A GALLERY of kamau

Calypso by Kamau Brathwaite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmMJXmk1z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmMJXmk1z4 Addressing the Black…

Linda Deane·May 16, 2015
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News

INAUGURAL KAMAU BRATHWAITE LECTURE (VIDEO)

An essential lecture, and the inaugural one in a series established by the University of the West Indies' Cultural Studies Department, in…

Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald·May 16, 2015
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Poetry

Mr Experimenter

i first met you when i was twenty in your office at uwi mona i brought you a folder of poems i had not expected you to read right then but…

Opal Palmer Adisa·May 16, 2015
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Poetry

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Each day at dusk, in need of quiet affirmation, a constant gardener hops from branch to strand of electric cable outside our patio to…

Carlyon Blackman·May 15, 2015
Features

MASTERS OF THE HYPA-VERSE: Kamau, Lil’ Rick and the nation-language evolution

This State of the Art originally appeared in ArtsEtc Issue No. 3, July/August 2003.

Mark Selman·May 14, 2015
Martina Pilé, Ayizan's Asson, 2013, painted calabash
News

THE MAKING OF THINGS

ACCORDING TO YORUBA tradition, Ayizan, a root Loa, controls the Marketplace and Commerce. Regarded as the first archetypal Mambo Priestess,…

Martina Pilé·May 14, 2015
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Features

POETICS, REVELATIONS & CATASTROPHES

KB: One thing about catastrophe, for me, is that it always seems to lead to a kind of magical realism. That moment of utter disaster, the…

Linda Deane·May 14, 2015
JAMAL J. IFILL, Green Energy, 2014, Glass lamp
News

VISUALIZING THE RESPONSE

ACROSS THIS WEBSITE is a wealth of evidence of the literary response to Kamau Brathwaite. The visual and multi-artistic community has…

Linda Deane·May 13, 2015
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Poetry

GOSPEL OF NANNY-OF-THE-MAROONS

Black blood veins palace walls— Whitehall smearing Pall Mall— drains under auction blocks, stains rum and sugar docks. Anguish anchors…

George Elliott Clarke·May 12, 2015
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