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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…
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,…
1966, June: our first meeting, at a Longman authors’ party. You were there, and Doris/Mex alongside, as Series Editor of The People Who…
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…
KAMAU BRATHWAITE'S CORPUS has been concerned with articulating a Caribbean cultural theory whose root conceptualization lies in history.…
I SAW this formation (Clouds; 2010) by chance across Bay Street’s Esplanade. Majestic and heavenly are what I thought, but I also felt…
I have type 2 bipolar disorder. This means that I am subject to at times thoughts and moods that have nothing to do with the external, and…
AROUND Independence each year, I pelt this quotation at my Research Paper students in the Division of Fine Arts (Graphic Design) at…
The ArtsEtc Freedom series. What is freedom? Are we free? What does it mean to be free? We welcome poetry, essays, short stories and…
Barbadian-born writer Austin Clarke is a seminal voice of the Caribbean short story, and when I recently edited Beyond Sangre Grande:…
You probably know pianist Ebe Gilkes as one of Barbados’ jazz icons. His exceptional piano virtuosity has entertained audiences for over…
How important is it that a man born in Barbados, whose family goes back over three hundred years on the island and who wrote a novel that…
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