BrokenSpineArtsMalika Booker discusses storytelling, identity, and the richness of Caribbean culture in her work.
📖 Read her interview:
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2021/12/05/dog-ear-feature-interview-with-malika-booker/
kilombavitahttps://archive.org/details/tangle-ft
Tangle: Poems by Rochelle Ward; Faizah Tabasamu; Jane Collins
Topics
#Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #StMartin, #SaintMartin, #SintMaarten, #Soualiga, #Swaliga
"Cover: Sundiata Lake, Nimojin Media Design.
Photography: Thema Bissereth, 2020; courtesy R. Ward, 2017."
https://archive.org/details/pawol-sent-lisi
Pawol Sent-Lisi : Poésie Kreol-English by Kendel Hippolyte; John Robert Lee; Egbert Lucien; Randolph Henry; Irvin Desir; Joseph Alexander; Mac Donald Dixon; Cindy Marie-Augustin; Melchoir Henry; Jane King; Christine Joseph; Ginerva Davidson; Lorena Edmund; Melanie Daniel; Theresa Augustin; Melania Daniel
Topics
#StLucianCreole, #Kwéyòl, #AntilleanCreole, #poetry, #Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #SaintLucianpoetry, #SaintLucianliterature, #poizi, #poizianKwéyòl
"Ce recueil a ete publie en AOUT 1991, a l'occasion du festival Culturel 'Regard sur Sainte-Lucie.'"
rlmThis has started out being a bad week - I am already bone-deep exhausted. All I want to do today is read Dionne Brand - fortunately, my job is such that I will spend hours today doing exactly that.
Find and read her, if you haven't.
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
#BlackLiterature
#BlackPoets
Reflections on the critical and intellectual legacies of J. Michael Dash especially encouraged. Short critical essays and creative pieces are equally welcome, as are French-language submissions; please see our submissions guidelines for more details. Send queries to the Editor at rlm[at]smallaxe.net. Deadline: August 15, 2023.
Wearing my professional hat:
sx salon (an open-access platform for Caribbean creative and other writing) welcomes submissions for upcoming issue on Francophone Caribbean literature, broadly construed. We're particularly interested in work on and by lesser-known writers and from less-often-represented sites (such as St Martin and French Guiana) and in work that goes beyond the familiar in content, theme and style.
https://archive.org/details/ywnomad
Nomad by Yvonne Weekes
Topics
#exile, #diaspora, #montserrat, #Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #literatureoftheCaribbean, #SoufrièreHills, #SoufrièreHillseruptions, #SoufrièreHillsvolcano
Philipsburg, St. Martin : House of Nehesi Publishers
So pleased and proud to announce that my brilliant mama, Pamela Mordecai, is on the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize (a major Caribbean literary prize) longlist for her poetry collection _de book of Joseph_.
https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2023/03/08/2023-ocm-bocas-prize-longlist/
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
#Poetry
#BlackPoetry
https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2023/03/08/2023-ocm-bocas-prize-longlist/
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
#Poetry
#BlackPoetry
Announcing the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize Longlist • Bocas Lit Fest
Ranging from debut authors to already celebrated prizewinners, nine writers have been longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, owner of the Trinidad and Tobago Express newspaper, TV6, and the OCM radio network. Now in its 13th year, the OCM Bocas Prize is considered the most coveted … Announcing the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize Longlist Read More »
Excited for my brilliant mother Pam Mordecai's (@refracting) double-book launch at UWI Mona Dept of Literatures in English this week!
Watch it live on Thurs Feb 9th at 2:30pm EST here: https://youtu.be/Z94G90mLV48
Book Launch
Not planning to do a lot of promotion - self or otherwise - on here, but my mother's latest #poetry collection (Pam Mordecai, A FIERCE GREEN PLACE) just received a very favourable mention in the California Review of Books and I'm very proud:
https://calirb.com/poetry-book-reviews-for-the-holidays/
#LiteratureInEnglish
#BlackLiterature
#BlackPoets
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
https://calirb.com/poetry-book-reviews-for-the-holidays/
#LiteratureInEnglish
#BlackLiterature
#BlackPoets
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry