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A REVIEW OF ISLAND WINGS

Flight From Paradise Island Wings by Cecil Foster. Harper Collins, 313 pp., hardcover, $27.00. During the 50s and 60s – after the Second…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 23, 2015
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A REVIEW OF A DEATH IN PANAMA

There are many reasons that I would commend Ron Williams’ second book (the first was Four Saints and an Angel), A Death in Panama, as a…

Omowale Elson·December 23, 2015
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A REVIEW OF NATIVES OF MY PERSON

By Jasmine Sealy Aboard the Reconnaissance, the vessel on which Natives of My Person takes place, a member of the crew, a young and…

Jasmine Sealy·December 23, 2015
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Freelance journalist wins 2015 Carolle Bourne Award

KWAME SLUSHER, a young freelance journalist currently residing in Australia, is the winner of The Carolle Bourne Award for Literary…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 6, 2015
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The 2015 IndyList

For the fifth year running, ArtsEtc is pleased to bring its annual Independence Reading List. The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a…

Linda Deane·November 25, 2015
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Winning Words: MR GARRAWAY’S TRINKETS AND TREASURES

Anthology preview THE YEAR we lost Miss Mattie, there was an odd emptiness in the house. I was too young to understand as much about death…

Tessa King-Inniss·July 7, 2015
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Winning Words: BIRD-TREES

Anthology preview WHEN I was younger I thought that coconut trees were like giant birds, their fronds gently flapping in the wind. I would…

Kwame Slusher·July 7, 2015
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Winning Words: TURPENTINE AND STEW PANTY

Anthology preview The red herring odour of unwashed womanhood and blood hung in the air around the Smith’s house in the village next to the…

Latoya Brathwaite·July 7, 2015
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More provocative Bajan Winning Words

The ArtsEtc Winning Words Anthology: NIFCA 2013/2014 is now out! The anthology, which features some searing, provocative and thoughtful…

Linda Deane·July 6, 2015
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INAUGURAL KAMAU BRATHWAITE LECTURE (VIDEO)

An essential lecture, and the inaugural one in a series established by the University of the West Indies' Cultural Studies Department, in…

Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald·May 16, 2015
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THE MAKING OF THINGS

ACCORDING TO YORUBA tradition, Ayizan, a root Loa, controls the Marketplace and Commerce. Regarded as the first archetypal Mambo Priestess,…

Martina Pilé·May 14, 2015
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VISUALIZING THE RESPONSE

ACROSS THIS WEBSITE is a wealth of evidence of the literary response to Kamau Brathwaite. The visual and multi-artistic community has…

Linda Deane·May 13, 2015