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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 M. 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 M. 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 M. 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 M. 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 M. 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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