Shivanee Ramlochan

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems; I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara; Perfected Fables Now: A Bookman Signs off on Seven Decades; The Lesson; and Five Midnights

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unraveling; Now/After; Slave Old Man; Skin Can Hold; and a look at the Hardears series

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Golden Child; How to Love a Jamaican; Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Wordplanting; and The Slave Master of Trinidad

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War; Theory; The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story; The Ice Migration; and Forged from the Love: Colin Laird, Caribbean Architect; plus a bookshelf Q&A with Jamaican-British poet Raymond Antrobus

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture; Giant; Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow; A View of the Empire at Sunset; and Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Venus as a Bear; Voodoo Hypothesis; Come Let Us Sing Anyway; If I Had the Wings; and Making Waves: How the West Indies Shaped the United States

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Art of White Roses; The Beast of Kukuyo; Home Home; Kitch; and Ricantations

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of De Rightest Place; Mouths Don’t Speak; Madwoman; and Ordinary Beast

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Tell No-One About This; Brother; Infidelities; and Sans Espoir

This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Tower of the Antilles; The Dear Remote Nearness of You; Kingston Buttercup; Writing on Water; Pocomania and London Calling

This month’s reading picks in our books column