Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 161 (January/February 2020) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of In Nearby Bushes; Honeyfish; A Dark Iris; Another Mother; and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 160 (November/December 2019) 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
Bookshelf (September/October 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Unraveling; Now/After; Slave Old Man; Skin Can Hold; and a look at the Hardears series
Dionne Brand: The reinvention of poetry | Closeup By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 159 (September/October 2019) Born in Trinidad and based in Canada, writer Dionne Brand has spent decades exploring the transgressive possibilities of poetry, says Shivanee Ramlochan — breaking through boundaries of genre in her quest to understand the shapeshifting self
Bookshelf (July/August 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 158 (July/August 2019) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Caribbean Biography Series — Earl Lovelace, Derek Walcott, Marcus Garvey, and Beryl McBurnie; Tentacle; and Where There Are Monsters
Bookshelf (May/June 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 157 (May/June 2019) 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
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) 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
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2019) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 155 (January/February 2019) 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
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) 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
Kevin Jared Hosein: a writer with a plan | Closeup By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 154 (November/December 2018) His recent win of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize affirms that Kevin Jared Hosein is a rising literary star. But his success didn’t come from nowhere, Shivanee Ramlochan discovers — rather, it’s the achievent of a patient devotion to writing, despite the odds
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 153 (September/October 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of The Art of White Roses; The Beast of Kukuyo; Home Home; Kitch; and Ricantations
Bookshelf (July/August 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 152 (July/August 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of De Rightest Place; Mouths Don’t Speak; Madwoman; and Ordinary Beast
Bookshelf (May/June 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Tell No-One About This; Brother; Infidelities; and Sans Espoir
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 150 (March/April 2018) 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
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2018) | Book reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 149 (January/February 2018) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 148 (November/December 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Bookshelf (September/October 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 147 (September/October 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Richard Georges: “I let the tides tug me along” | Q&A By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 147 (September/October 2017) With his debut book Make Us All Islands shortlisted for a prestigious Forward Prize, BVI poet Richard Georges is the latest Caribbean writer to make a splash beyond home shores. He talks to Shivanee Ramlochan about the special challenges of writing from a small place
Bookshelf (July/August 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 146 (July/August 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Bookshelf (May/June 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 145 (May/June 2017) This month’s reading picks in our books column
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2017) | Book Reviews By Shivanee Ramlochan | Issue 144 (March/April 2017) This month’s reading picks
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