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Features

RETENTIONS (A Tuk Verse Poem fuh Kamau)

1 Fingers cap ’e head an’ den interweave minus knowledge ah wuh it mean. “Boy, wha’ wrong wid you? Some- body in you flat dead?” De…

Anthony Kellman·May 4, 2015
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Fiction

From A HEFTY COST

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife and children, and brethren, and sisters, and his own life also, he…

H Nigel Thomas·May 2, 2015
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Features

BRATHWAITE’S AFRODIASPORIC CONSCIOUSNESS: RECUPERATING “UNCLE TOM”

KAMAU BRATHWAITE'S CORPUS has been concerned with articulating a Caribbean cultural theory whose root conceptualization lies in history.…

Marie Sairsingh·May 2, 2015
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News

Looking for Kamau

It seemed easy enough. Asked to provide a poem with links to Kamau, I immediately thought of one I had written around the same time I was…

Adonijah·May 2, 2015
Kamau 85: Illustration by Lamair Nash; text from “Griot” by Icil Phillips.
News

Big, bright wave: KAMAU 85

ON MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015, Barbadian cultural icon Kamau Brathwaite turns 85. For the past three months, ArtsEtc has been calling out to…

Linda Deane·May 1, 2015
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Poetry

GORÉE ISLAND (for Kamau)

Memory mocked us. Thrust a long lascivious tongue through the chiselled slit of a viewing window. Beyond the mute stone wall the lone…

Adrian Augier·April 30, 2015
Read2Me! participants at St Margaret’s Primary School, St John, Barbados
Blog

In and Out of Worlds

Pupils of St Margaret's Primary in St John show their best "lightning bolts." We would use Usain Bolt's trademark pose and other fun…

Linda M. Deane·April 18, 2015
One of the many faces of Charlie in this world, or just another woman preparing for the coming storm?
Blog

Doing the best we can for 2015

Whether in Bridgetown or New York, we all just do the best we can in bad times, don’t we? Here, a woman buys a case of water in preparation…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 7, 2015
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News

ArtsEtc launches reading programme

Read2Me!, ArtsEtc’s latest literary adventure, is up and running. The six-week pilot programme sends writers and storytellers into schools…

Linda Deane·January 21, 2015
She’s not George Lamming, either, but Aprille Thomas won the Kamau Brathwaite Award for her poetry at NIFCA 2014.
Blog

I am not George Lamming

She’s not George Lamming, either, but Aprille Thomas won the Kamau Brathwaite Award for her poetry at NIFCA 2014. Two of my most pleasant…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 19, 2014
The 2014 ArtsEtc Independence Reading List
News

The 2014 IndyList

Once again, ArtsEtc is pleased to bring its annual Independence Reading List. The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12…

Linda Deane·November 29, 2014
Barbadian writer Timothy Callender (1946-1989) knew something about bad men.
Blog

The gas attendant who thought he was A. Hitler

Barbadian writer Timothy Callender (1946-1989) knew something about bad men. Photo from timothycallender.com, Copyright 2014. Good help is…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 4, 2014
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