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Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 164 pp., paperback, 2021) is the biography of the Vincentian poet-jazz musician Ellsworth…
Unraveling, the new novel from World Fantasy Award nominee Karen Lord, is on one level a mystery: a serial killer, Walther Grey, murdered…
Paintings can sometimes speak words; poems will occasionally offer vistas. These aren’t contradictions, but conclusions that St…
Christine Barrow, who made Barbados her home for nearly fifty years, delivers a masterclass in short fiction’s powers of subtlety with her…
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…
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…
Norma Meek sure knows how to pack a bariffle of pre-teen troubles into 150 pages. In Watching Out for Mummy, which the author wrote twelve…
Compelling and emphatic language toned down by academic speak. A stitched-together structure that is both focused and diffuse. The folk…
In Nicole Blades' second novel, The Thunder Beneath Us, a talented but self-sabotaging writer is forced to grapple with her painful past as…
The Caribbean has a powerful, modern tradition of fantastic literature that’s on full display in this anthology of original fiction by…
Edison T. Williams' Prickett's Well is a long fuse with a slow burn, where the sparks are visible but the time to detonation is unknown.…
COLLECTED POEMS 1975-2015 by John Robert Lee represents one man’s spiritual journey meandering through thorny labyrinths of faith, “from…
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