Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

A Review of Redemption in Indigo

Redemption song By Robert Edison Sandiford Redemption in Indigo, by Karen Lord(Small Beer Press, ISBN 978-193152066-9, 199 pp) I’m iffy…

A Review of Water with Berries

Subject: Fwd: W is for Water with Berries by George Lamming by Matti Ron (thanks for sharing!) Date: 2020-11-16 11:36 From: "John R. Lee"…

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Republican Reflections

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021. Photo Copyright © 2022 by Robert Edison Sandiford. IT’S BEEN YEARS…

Cherie Jones

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Linda M. Deane 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2020 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Linda M. Deane. Photo Copyright © 2021. THE 23rd FRANK COLLYMORE LITERARY AWARDS were presented…

Dear Mia, come lewwe talk…

Table talk, everything in one. Illustration Copyright © 2021 by Izora Devonish. DEAR MIA, May I call you Mia? Madam Prime Minister? PM? Not…

BOOKS, RACE AND POLITICS

“Mutual understanding in the world being nearly always, as now, at low ebb, it is comforting to remember that it is through art that one…

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Passing On, Lifting Up: Remembering Horace I. Goddard

Montreal writer, educator and community activist Horace I. Goddard had a commitment to community first nurtured in Barbados. Photo…

A Selection from An Ocean Away: My Mother, Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory

My mother names me She marries the lion and moves a degree less north. The heavens tempt her with smorgasbords of grey – battleship, cloud,…

Fishing

George Goddard FishingThere is alwaysthis sandthis seathis windcracked, saltslapped rock And small boys and old men fishing here:their…

My Dad the Obeah Woman

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for Charles Cadet, cantor, 1924-2021Antiphon: “Nevertheless I am continually with Thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand.” – Psalm…