[R]evolution[s]: The ArtsEtc Anthology of Barbadian Literature

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[R]evolution[s]: The ArtsEtc Anthology of Barbadian Literature
 
 
For Richard Allsopp, a caretaker of our language, and —.
 
 
 
 
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction by Robert Edison Sandiford
 
Barbadian Literature 1933-1993: Context and Survey by Kevyn Arthur
 
Protest and Performance: New Orality in Barbados by Philip Nanton
 
The Contemporary Barbadian Novel 1953-Present by Linda M. Deane
 
NB. Criteria: Quality; Longevity; Relevance; Recognition of work AND cultural, social &/or political relevance of the author.
NB. Favour work that has appeared in ArtsEtc publications, including Winning Words.  UPDATED AUG 2016.
NB. Choose 1-4 pieces in the interest of Keeping permission costs down—BUT suggest pieces NOT used as “also recommended/alternative texts.”  UPDATED JUN 2024, 1 PROSE ONLY, 3 POEMS MAX.
NB. See what permission fees we can get waived.  UPDATED AUG 2024.
NB. Copyright in Barbados expires 70 years after death of the author.  UPDATED AUG 2024.
LEGEND
> = excerpt to be read     D = done     tc = to copy     * = preliminary selection by Christine Barrow     ? = may revise selected excerpts

CONTENTS
Frank Collymore (1893-1980)
Hymn to the Sea
At Easter
The Moth tc
Words are the Poem
 
Clennell Wickham (1895-1938)
Mr S.C. Thorne
Gentility, Thy Name Was Bajan
 
H. A. Vaughan (1901-1985)
To the Unborn Leader
Revelation
To a Tudor Street Shop Girl
Lost Wonder
 
Peter Blackman (1909-1993) [poet] 
from Footprints – George Lamming collection tc

William Seymour Arthur (1909-2011)
Youthful Problems
A Guy from Easy Street
 
Edgar Mittleholzer (1909-1965)
from With a Carib Eye Chapters 10, 11 & 13
 
Errol Barrow (1920-1987)
What kind of image do you have of yourself?
 
Karl Sealy (1922-1993)
Dream of Gold

John Wickham (1923july25-2000)
Meeting in Milkmarket tc
Lunch Hour
Final Inscription
 
A.N. Forde (1923-1996) NB. A.N. = Alfred Nathaniel
“The Bus”

Bruce St. John (1923december24-1995)
Reason
Cricket
Higher Learnin’
The Other Woman
Letter to England
Immortal Mortal
Friends
 
9. Lionel Hutchinson (1923MONTH&DATE-2000) [novelist]
from One Touch of Nature tc – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
(Note: I'll have to do a little more digging to sort out who between John, Bruce, A.N., and Lionel was born first, second, third, and fourth; ditto Peter, Edgar and William.)
 
Geoffrey Drayton (1924february13-2017august28, 2014)
The Singing Negress
Observations for an Artist Friend
The Revenant
from Christopher Chapters 16 & 17
 
11.George Lamming (1927MONTH&DATE-1922June 4) [poet, novelist, essayist]
from The Emigrants >, tc – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
from The Pleasures of Exile, “Caliban Orders History,” pp. 118-150
  

12.Paule Marshall (1929April9-2019August 12)
from Brown Girl, Brownstones Chapters 1, pp. 8-11, Chapter 2, pp. 17-19 & 22-25
from Triangular Road, “I’ve known Rivers: The James River”
(Note ALT: Sir Winston Scott Lecture & Bim 50, Vol. 8, May 2016.  Go with if there is a rights issue.)
 
13.Kamau Brathwaite (1930May11-2020February4) [poet, essayist]
from The Arrivants tc, “Ogun” – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
from Ancestors tc, “When the Sun…,” pp. 255-259, & “Sam Lord,” pp. 20-21, & “Horse Weebles,” pp. 51-55
from Born to Slow Horses tc
from Words Need Love Too, Title Poem, pp. 22-28
The Nines & NOMMONNOMM, respectively, from ArtsEtc
(Note: LIST POEMS INDIVIDUALLY, AS WITH VAUGHAN, ETC. 
 

14.Austin Clarke (1931/34JULY26-2016JUNE26)
from Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
from The Question
ALT: from his Nation column
 
15.Cynthia Wilson (b. 1934)
from Listen to the Hills
 
16. Carolle Bourne (1937-2012)
Garrotte
Pluto
The Non-Role of the Critic
 
 
17.Jeanette Layne-Clark (1940-2009)
from Lickmout Lou
 Jeanette Layne-Clark (1940-2009) [essayist]
from Lickmout Lou (column in local newspapers) – West Indies Collections

18. Kevyn Arthur (b.1942)
from The View from Belmont Road
 
19.Timothy Callender (1946-1989)
The Boyfriends
from How Music Came to the Aichan People
 
20.Horace I. Goddard (February10, 1947-2020)
 
 
21.Philip Nanton (b.194-?)
Harvest[?]
from Island Voices
 
22.Esther Phillips (b. 194-?) [essayist, poet]
 
23.Mark McWatt (b. 1947) [poet, short story writer]
 
24.Austin Yearwood (b. 195-?) [essayist, short story writer]
 
25.Nick Whittle (b. 1950?) [poet]
 
Vadney S. Haynes (b.1951) [playwright]
from Blacks Don’t Bowl – West Indies Collections

26.Earl Warner (1952-1998) [playwright]
 Earl Warner (1952-1998) [playwright]
from Man Talk – AE Collection (pdf or physical copy) 

27.Thomas Armstrong (1952-2012) [novelist, short story writer]
Thomas Armstrong (1952-2012) [novelist, short story writer]
from Of Water and Rock – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
 
28.Margaret Gill (b. 1953) [poet]
 
Hazel Simmons-McDonald (b.19-?) [poet, short story writer]
from Shabine – Personal copy

29.Cecil Foster (b. 1954) [essayist, novelist]
Cecil Foster (b. 1954) [essayist, novelist]
from Dry Bones Memory – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
 
30.Anthony Kellman (b. 1955) [novelist, poet]
 
31.Hilary Beckles (b. 1955) [essayist, playwright]
 Hilary Beckles (b. 1955) [essayist, playwright]
from The First West Indies Cricket Tour – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections
from The First Black Slave Society – Open Shelf and West Indies Collections

32.Aja (b. 1957) [poet]
 
33.Wayne Jordan (b. 195-?) [novelist]
 
34.Yvonne Weekes (b. 195-?) [essayist, playwright, poet, short story writer]
 Yvonne Weekes (b. 19-?) [essayist, playwright, poet]
from Nomad – AE Collection (pdf or physical copy)

35.Frank Gilkes (b. 19–?) [poet]
 
36.Winston O. Farrell (b. 19–?) [playwright, poet]
 
37.Elizabeth Best (b. 19–?) [poet]
 
38.Arnold Ward (b. 19–?) [novelist, short story writer]
 Arnold Ward (b. 19-?) [novelist, short story writer]
from Knock and Wait – Compact storage? and West Indies Collections

39. Deanne Kennedy (b. 19–?) [essayist, poet, short story writer]
 
40.Glenville Lovell (b. 19–?) [novelist, playwright, short story writer]
 Glenville Lovell (b. 19-?) [novelist, playwright, short story writer]
from Panama Silver (A Silver Web ) – NA* [SHOULD ARTSETC ORDER, IF STILL AVAILABLE ONLINE, OR CONTACT GLENVILLE?]

41.George Elliott Clarke (b. 1960) [essayist, librettist, novelist, poet]
 
42.Barbara Chase (b. 19–?) [novelist, short story writer]
 
43.Katy Gash (b. 19–?) [poet, short story writer]
 
44.Sandra Sealy (b. 196-?) [essayist, poet, short story writer]
 
45.Nailah Folami Imoja (b. 196-?) [essayist, novelist, poet]
 
46.James Carmichael (b. 196-?) [playwright, short story writer]
 
47.Claire Ince (b. 196-?) [scriptwriter, short story writer]
 
48.Linda M. Deane (b. 1963) [essayist, poet]
 
49.Dorothea Smartt [poet]
 Dorothea Smartt (b.19-?) [poet]
from Reader, I Married Him – AE Collection (pdf or physical copy)

50.Dana Gilkes (b. 196-?) [poet]
Dana Gilkes (b. 196-?) [poet]
from Anatomy of a Scream – West Indies Collections

 
51.gary jerome jones (b. 196-?) [poet, short story writer]
 
52.Lynn Nottage (b. 196-?) [playwright]
 
53.Robert Edison Sandiford (b. 1968) [essayist, graphic novelist, novelist, short story writer]
 
54.Karen Lord (b. 1968) [essayist, novelist]
 
55.Kerry Belgrave (b. 19-?) [poet]
 
56.Cherie S. Jones (b. 197-?) [short story writer]
 
57.Heather Barker (b. 197-?) [essayist, short story writer]
 
58.Nicole Blades (b. 1972) [essayist, novelist]
 
59.Mark Jason Welch (b. 197-?) [poet]
 
60.DJ Simmons (b. 197-?) [poet]
Jasmine Sealy (b.?) [short story writer, novelist, essayist]
from The Island of Forgetting – NA* [SHOULD ARTSETC ORDER?]
 End of inserts

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[add those in yellow—all except Racquel and Tammi]
61.Aprille Thomas
62.Mark Ramsay 
63.Carlyon Blackman
64.Racquel Griffith
65.Naomi Jackson
66.Brian Franklin
67.Tammi Browne-Bannister
68.Ronald Williams