Shivanee Ramlochan: “The poems must have decided on me” | Own Words By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) Poet Shivanee Ramlochan on her debut book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, and why she’s so powerfully drawn to difficult subjects — as told to Nicholas Laughlin
Remembering Derek Walcott (1930–2017) | Icon By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 145 (May/June 2017) St Lucian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate
Mt Roraima: “I could hardly imagine how we came all this way” By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 134 (July/August 2015) Caribbean Beat editor Nicholas Laughlin on his trek to Mt Roraima, his most memorable trip in a decade of travel
Bookshelf (March/April 2002) By James Ferguson and Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 54 (March/April 2002) New books from and about the Caribbean
Kaieteur dreaming By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 132 (March/April 2015) With their 741-foot drop over a sandstone plateau, the majestic Kaieteur Falls are an icon of Guyana, and a must-see for adventure travellers. But while most visitors hop down on an airborne day-trip, a lucky few get to experience this natural wonder the old-fashioned way, travelling by boat up the Potaro River. Nicholas Laughlin recounts the journey, and the falls’ magnetic attraction
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2002) By Nicholas Laughlin, Robert Clarke and David Katz | Issue 53 (January/February 2002) This month's reading picks
Beyond the beyond: the Shetland Islands By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 130 (November/December 2014) The Shetland Islands, northernmost part of the United Kingdom, seem utterly remote on the map. But Nicholas Laughlin finds they have a busy history as a crossroads of the North Atlantic
Word of mouth (November/December 2014) By Philip Sander, Nicholas Laughlin and BC Pires | Issue 130 (November/December 2014) 2014’s hottest Caribbean novel, Caribbean artists on show in Santa Fe, and a celebration of food and drink in Barbados
Finding the centre in Mexico City By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 128 (July/August 2014) Nicholas Laughlin arrives in Mexico City, and realises his whole notion of geography is wrong. The Aztecs thought this was the centre of the universe — maybe they were right
Gaiutra Bahadur: enigmas and arrivals By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 127 (May/June 2014) When writer Gaiutra Bahadur — born in Guyana, grown up in the United States — set out to answer questions about her great-grandmother, she discovered that “facts get compromised with time.” Her book Coolie Woman uncovers hidden stories about the “odyssey” of indentured Indian women in the Caribbean, writes Nicholas Laughlin
Make it new By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 126 (March/April 2014) If Trinidad’s literary landscape seems particularly fertile of late, it’s thanks to a bountiful crop of new fiction writers and poets telling unexpected stories and trying out unfamiliar voices. Photographer Mark Lyndersay captures portraits of eight emerging talents, while Nicholas Laughlin reflects on the cultural climate that may explain this profusion
Marajó Island: green days by the river By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 124 (November/December 2013) Marajó Island, in the mouth of the mighty Amazon River, is more than three times the size of Jamaica, and little known outside Brazil
Nicolette Bethel: “In the theatre, you never know what’s gonna happen” By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 123 (September/October 2013) Bahamian playwright Nicolette Bethel, co-founder of the Shakespeare in Paradise theatre festival, on the unpredictable thrill of live performance
Sandra Brewster: the shape of a name By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 121 (May/June 2013) For Guyanese-Canadian artist Sandra Brewster, the phone book, with its long lists of names, sums up the way individual lives can disappear into
Marlon Griffith: mas by other means By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 119 (January/February 2013) Marlon Griffith’s multimedia performance works take elements of traditional Trinidad Carnival into the world of contemporary art
Ebony G. Patterson: All the right moves By Nicholas Laughlin | Issue 117 (September/October 2012) Ebony G. Patterson’s dancehall portraits are spectacles of riotous colour and texture; Nicholas Laughlin investigates her international art career
