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86 stories

Funeral of St Lucian writer Gandolph St Clair, March 2018.

“one of us has died”

In memoriam: Gandolph St. Clair, 1951-2018

John Robert Lee·March 28, 2018
The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015/2016

WINNING WORDS: Magnifying Glass

Barbados Barbados Spherical axis tilting Blue-green smears One second Pinpoint → United States of America • Barbados o (Yellow and blue…

Ashlee Griffith·September 4, 2017
The ArtsEtc NIFCA winning Words Anthology 2015-2016

WINNING WORDS: To the Audubon Society

Put shit in your eye, right so I’d like to stuff ’em; sate my gypsy gullet. But bird’s brains are featherweight, better plied as dusters to…

Trina Headley·September 4, 2017
Meadow Dream by St Lucian painter Shallon Fadlien.

Rainbow in Balata

Meadow Dream. Copyright © 2016 by Shallon Fadlien. (for SF) A story for you— in late afternoon drizzle coming home through familiar Balata…

John Robert Lee·September 24, 2016
Seven Worlds  © 2015 by Gary Butte, St Lucian visual artist

For Kamau Brathwaite at 86

Seven Worlds. Copyright © 2015 by Gary Butte. “Where are the open spaces now clear sky, the stars, horizons’ distances?” KB, "The…

John Robert Lee·May 11, 2016
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New Year Poem

Sea at Gros Islet. Photo Copyright © 2015 by John Robert Lee. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like…

John Robert Lee·January 3, 2016
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Seeing is Believing

You might doubt their existence our brown hares are rarely seen. Yet I’ve heard their bewitching half-human early morning scream. One…

Philip Nanton·January 3, 2016
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Desktop Muse

after Janneth Mornan-Green what school was selling she refused to learn by rote during history classes she sailed the Atlantic Ocean with…

Juleus Ghunta·December 20, 2015
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A Drought Ended

He would throw her across the room. Some men make sport of such things. I was warned to see and blind. Still, I watched through the window…

Juleus Ghunta·December 20, 2015
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Winning Words: SPEAKING TOMAS

Anthology preview In the darkness after words, after the tempest of tantrums, the wind-whipped tears, accusation and recrimination sluicing…

Stephen Sandiford·July 7, 2015
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Winning Words: A MORNING WALK AT FOUL BAY

Anthology preview Long shadows ripple across the morning tracks walkers, runners and joggers men, women and children together and alone…

Nick Whittle·July 7, 2015
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Winning Words: Transhood

Anthology preview; winner of the 2014 Carolle Bourne Prize for Innovation Full, round belly in eighty-six Divined as girl by Reading linea…

Adrienne Callender·July 7, 2015