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Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Explore over 403 stories we've published since 2003 — poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and reportage.

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Poetry

CON-FICTIONS AND CON-VERSE-ZIONS

Like the cruelty of clothes belted strapped buttoned down zipped up these flat pressed women ironed hard metal smoothed starched of impulse…

A-dZiko Simba Gegele·May 6, 2015
Features

ODALE’S CHOICE

The cast of Odale's Choice in a rare intimate interview with the play’s author, Kamau Brathwaite, following its debut performance in…

Linda Deane·May 6, 2015
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Fiction

WE ALL ARE ONE

The rhythm strummed from an electric guitar by a Tobagonian hand Stirs in the gyrating waste of some carnival reveller over in Trinidad.…

Glenn Charlery·May 6, 2015
kamau-portrait
Features

ORIGINS

I’m rising slowly from slabs of rock seeing beyond dreaming, for the first time. How long have I slept in this cave, its patina of…

Esther Phillips·May 6, 2015
kamau-portrait
Features

SHANGÓ (FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE)

Count dem: one, two, three, four, five bullet— look like me did have chicken pox dat swell up all over me back. But dem neva know me woulda…

Geoffrey Philp·May 6, 2015
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Nearness (2014); watercolour and ink.
Features

THE WOODCUTTER’S DAUGHTER DRIVES HOME

Your father was felled by a giant teak one purple morning, in the damp of the forest’s aching mouth. Your mother hears it a mountain away,…

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné·May 6, 2015
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Features

FOR KAMAU: A QUIPU OF KEY MOMENTS IN THE 50TH YEAR OF OUR FRIENDSHIP

1966, June: our first meeting, at a Longman authors’ party. You were there, and Doris/Mex alongside, as Series Editor of The People Who…

Anne Walmsley·May 6, 2015
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News

KAMAU, A CONFLUENCE OF INFLUENCES

MAY THERE BE many more fruitful years, for Kamau Brathwaite has never stopped writing as the years have passed. May there be joy in a life…

Elaine Savory·May 5, 2015
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News

PALM TREE SYNDROME

PALM TREE SYNDROME: Colonial Installation: Plant Me, Please (Mixed-media drawing, May 2010, Private collection) The piece has many layers,…

Gail Pounder-Speede·May 5, 2015
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News

PUTTING IMAGERY TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURE

I MET KAMAU (I was once chided for respectfully saying, “Mr Braithwaite”) in 1978. We were invited to participate in the fifth anniversary…

Dorbrene E. O'Marde·May 5, 2015
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News

“WIDOWERED IMAGES”

A REVIEW OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE’S THE ZEA MEXICAN DIARY: 7 SEPTEMBER 1926-7 SEPTEMBER 1986 (THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, 1993) This is a…

Cyril Dabydeen·May 5, 2015
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News

…I LIIITE DISSS CANDLE INNN YOR NAME…

real/dreeem/innnbeeetweeen, yOr ridddimmms, rituals an riiites continew to creeeAte =beee-tru-to-yOr-self= sculptures innn deee lannnscape…

caroline booops sardine·May 5, 2015
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