Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice
For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...
“Little England behind you”
How does it feel to be colonised, to be a colonial subject? Happily, few of us under the age of 50 know or will ever know, for we live in...
Sexual Revolution
It was Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret, who once famously boasted that he had slept with a thousand women. (Later, someone...
Creole gothic: Freida Cassin’s “With Silent Tread”
Frieda who? No, hardly a household name in the annals of Caribbean literature, but With Silent Tread, first published in Antigua around...
