Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of This One Sky Day by Leone Ross; Can You Sign My Tentacle by Brandon O’Brien; Testimonies on the History of Jamaica, Volume 1 by Zakiya McKenzie; and Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough
Canisia Lubrin: in the light of language | Closeup
Few Caribbean poets have enjoyed critical acclaim as sudden and early as St Lucia-born Canisia Lubrin. Her sophomore book The Dyzgraphxst has won a slew of awards, but, as Shivanee Ramlochan learns, Lubrin’s concern is not with the spotlight of fame, but with the luminous possibilities of language itself
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of Musings, Mazes, Muses, Margins by Gordon Rohlehr; Sweethand by N.G. Peltier; All the Rage by Rosamond S. King; and Antiman by Rajiv Mohabir
Bookshelf (May/June 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie; Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden; An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand; and Mama Phife Represents: A Verse Memoir by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks from the Caribbean, with reviews of Inheritance: The Story of a West Indian Family by Ian McDonald; of colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard; My Mother’s House by Francesca Momplaisir; and The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé
Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2021) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey; Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans; and The Assassination of Maurice Bishop by Godfrey Smith
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma; The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin; and Jane Eyre: Caribbean Drawings by Rex Dixon
Bookshelf (Sept/Oct 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan of Epiphaneia by Richard Georges; Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross; and Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
