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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…

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 12, 2022
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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"…

Matti Ron·January 12, 2022
Barbadian Poet Linda M. Deane, July 2021.

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…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 6, 2021
Cherie Jones, the author or How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, published in February 2021.

The Beautiful and the Authentic: A Review of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Photo Copyright © 2021 by Hachette Book Group. CHERIE JONES' DEBUT NOVEL, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, is set in an unnamed…

Ronald A. Williams·May 12, 2021
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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
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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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A Review of Unraveling

Unraveling, the new novel from World Fantasy Award nominee Karen Lord, is on one level a mystery: a serial killer, Walther Grey, murdered…

Ceridwen Christensen·November 8, 2020
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A Review of Canouan Suite and Other Pieces

Paintings can sometimes speak words; poems will occasionally offer vistas. These aren’t contradictions, but conclusions that St…

Shivanee Ramlochan·November 8, 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
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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
The Gathering, Part 1, Aquarina, Jenisa Reed, 2020.

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
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A Review of Ancestors

Brathwaite’s risky reinvention of his important trilogy—Mother Poem (1977), Sun Poem (1982) and X/Self (1987)—has much to offer old and new…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 19, 2020