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A Review of Riff: The Shake Keane Story

Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 164 pp., paperback, 2021) is the biography of the Vincentian poet-jazz musician Ellsworth…

H. Nigel Thomas·January 28, 2021
Annalee Davis, Barbadian visual artist, September 2020.
Studios

Annalee Davis: Wild Tings

Racquel Griffith: How would you define your art? Annalee Davis: My work sits at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
Past Issues

No. 25: The Gone Fishin’ Issue

Published: March/April 2009 Theme: The Gone Fishin’ Issue Cover: Word Power, Collage by Studio 102101 and ArtsEtc Contributors: Aguinaldo…

November 30, 2020
Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addressing the UN in 2019.
Blog

Barbados a Republic: Three Times a Charm?

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019. Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
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The 2020 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List has reached a milestone: it's now in its tenth edition! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2020
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Poetry

Ode to the Christmas Breeze

Dear one, when I recall how hot an ting this August did and den wid all de other nameless ting it had in all this covid You be most welcome…

Margaret D. Gill·November 30, 2020
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A Review of Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow

Christine Barrow, who made Barbados her home for nearly fifty years, delivers a masterclass in short fiction’s powers of subtlety with her…

Shivanee Ramlochan·November 8, 2020
Photo by John Robert Lee for "Collage" poem--"socially distanced," November 2020.
Poetry

Collage

Photo Copyright © 2020 by John Robert Lee—socially distanced. for Ann-Margaret Lim “To the saints who are in Ephesus.” Ephesians 1:1…

John Robert Lee·November 8, 2020
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A Review of Pick of the Crop

Nailah Folami Imoja's novel Pick of the Crop (Heinemann, 106pp., paperback, 0-435-98966-9) opens with a familiar, Bajan, boys-on-the-block…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 8, 2020
ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing toward the Statue of Nelson in Bridgetown, St Michael, June 2020.
Blog

Tek de brute down—Barbados’ Nelson must fall, and how

At last! Bajans seem up for the takedown of the statue of Lord Nelson. Photo of ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing the way copyright ©…

Linda M. Deane·July 28, 2020
The Gathering, Part 1, Aquarina, Jenisa Reed, 2020.
News

THE GATHERING: Barbados’ strike force against the COVID-19 pandemic  

PROLOGUE: NEVER RETREAT, NEVER SURRENDER Story, Script and Illustrations by the Research Methods Class of 2020 Jaleel ARTHUR Taaj deRUSHE…

2020·June 20, 2020
AE Editor Linda M. Deane with her children, Izora and Anderson, at a Black Lives Matter demonstration held in Bridgetown June 13, 2020.
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What black mothers go through every George Floyd time

Our Global Spring: ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane (right) and her children, Andy and Izora, march in Bridgetown June 13, 2020, for what…

Linda M. Deane·June 14, 2020
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