Make way | On Caribbean innovation
A note to our readers from editor Nicholas Laughlin, as we present our second specially curated online-only edition of Caribbean Beat
“To remind you of life” | On Caribbean resilience
A note to our readers from editor Nicholas Laughlin, as we present our first specially curated online-only edition of Caribbean Beat
Claire Adam: “I’ve always felt, ask me where I’m from!” | Own words
Claire Adam, Trinidad-born novelist, on learning to observe, the usefulness of honest criticism, and the notion of “home” — as told to Nicholas Laughlin
Shivanee Ramlochan: “The poems must have decided on me” | Own Words
My mother is an English literature teacher, and when I was growing up books were more my friends than human friends were. There was always...
Remembering Derek Walcott (1930–2017) | Icon
He was a prodigy, and he knew it. He self-published his first book, 25 Poems, when he was just eighteen, paying the printer’s bill with...
Mt Roraima: “I could hardly imagine how we came all this way”
“Setting off for Mt Roraima in March 2007, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I’d read as much as I could find about the...
Bookshelf (March/April 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Collected Poems 1937-1989 A. J. Seymour, ed. Ian McDonald & J. de Weever (Blue Parrot Press 2000, 303pp) Small birds...
Kaieteur dreaming
After we unload our bags from the Land Cruiser, I check our location on my map. If I draw an imaginary straight line, Pamela Landing —...
