Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Studios

DEANNE KENNEDY

My favorite book: Pride and Prejudice. My favorite author: it is impossible to narrow it down to just one, but on that list would…

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PETER LAURIE

How do you know which are your favourite books? If you are honest, they are books you read and reread and reread. So my favourite books are…

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RONALD A. WILLIAMS

D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers. It was the first book that transported me to a realistic interior psychological landscape where the…

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EDWARD BAUGH

It isn’t easy to answer these questions, especially as to one book. As to one author, if I’m pushed to it, I guess I’d say Derek Walcott. I…

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INGRID PERSAUD

News

ArtsEtc sponsors prize in poet’s name

ArtsEtc recently announced its sponsorship of the inaugural Carolle Bourne Prize—a new award for the 2014 National Independence Festival of…

Poetry

AFTER GARY BUTTE

“So crossing the river and walking the path we came at last to Kumasi.” – Kamau Brathwaite Prologue: The merchant Did he arrive at sunset’s…

Poetry

BAHAMIAN DISCOURSE*

I. Sunlight slithers, insinuates itself, amid preening palms. Likewise, I goad my serpent to rifle lady’s “bird’s nest”: I don’t trifle.…

Blog

A WRITER’S VIEW OF BRIDGETOWN

IT WAS Bridgetown as we’d never seen it before—a uniquely literary view of this centuries-old city. The signature event of Bim LitFest…

Features

With Eyes Turned Skyward

I SAW this formation (Clouds; 2010) by chance across Bay Street’s Esplanade. Majestic and heavenly are what I thought, but I also felt…

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Barbadians “rediscover” their spirit of protest…and not a moment too soon

Barbados protests. Image based on caribbean360.com photo, Copyright 2014. “We are getting back in tune with our revolutionary tradition…our…

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A WAY HOME: Haibun for Maya Angelou

She bid us welcome, stay awhile. Showed us ’round then said, Go on, chile. Maya Angelou was easily, almost too easily, so much more than…