Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Features

MEETING KAMAU

I FIRST MET Edward Kamau Brathwaite in the flesh in Toronto in 2005. I was attending a conference on the Caribbean at Ryerson University. I…

Studios

WAVELINE FOR KAMAU

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KAMAU 85 – EDITORS’ NOTE

EXCERPTS FROM AN 85TH-BIRTHDAY EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE Quoting "John R. Lee" December 23, 2014: > Hi Rob > Your copy of Sent Lisi mailed…

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LAS ANTILLAS LETRADAS

Las Antillas Letradas, 2013, mural, 4’ 4” x 9’; woodcut and digital impression on papel (30 prints). The mural is composed of portraits…

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SOUL ROASTED LIKE CASHEWS…

“Bim(shire’s) best,” someone said. “Madness!” said the rest. The level lands of Barbados hide no one. You must take a stand. You forgot the…

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FOREWORD TO KAMAU 85, AN ARTSETC SPECIAL

Poet is a craftsperson, oral or literary, ideally both, who deals in metrical and/or rhythmical—sometimes riddmical—wordsongs, wordsounds,…

Poetry

PRAYERS AT THE BEACH

An Oriki for KAMAU 85 Click on images below to start slideshow

Poetry

BROTHER MAN – FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE

I shall not remove my cover My head is sacred ground I shall not cut my beard It is a monument I shall not speak with your tongue I have my…

Poetry

BLACK SKIN (FOR KAMAU B)

My santan tone teecha Read me the story— “Scrubbing The Negro” And whenever I see A tub of boiling water I cringe and I cry. Since ABC…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, May 2015

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FINGER IN OUR EYE QUOTATION

“‘Barbados education is the best?/Then why, why so many expert in de town?’ …It reminds me of the same question, but clothed in the…

Poetry

9—le ressouvenir

this is owed, in the recollection of things the precarious accounting of confessions and their alleged crimes—your graces, i did not mean…