Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2014)
Sic Transit Wagon, by Barbara Jenkins (Peepal Tree Press, 180 pp, ISBN 9781845232146) If there can be one, satisfying definition of what it...
Caribbean bookshelf (January/February 2014)
Wishing for Wings, by Debbie Jacob (Ian Randle Publishers, 236 pp, ISBN 9789766378028) The Youth Training Centre on Golden Grove Road in...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2013)
All Decent Animals, by Oonya Kempadoo (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 260 pp, ISBN 9780374299712) As a designer for a prominent, unwieldy...
Wild words: Trinidadian poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Although Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné prefers to dwell in realms of possibility, rather than concrete certainty, the following is absolutely...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2013)
What Things Are True, by Jackie Hinkson (Paria Publishing Company, 316 pp, ISBN 9789768054968) Tempting as it is to term this book...
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2013)
Picturing the Caribbean The traditional photo book is going through some changes. No longer content to reside stoutly on coffee tables,...
Barbara Jenkins: writing a lifetime
“If I had to describe my daily writing life,” Barbara Jenkins laughs, “I would call it chaotic.” She refuses to endorse the notion...
The questioner: Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien understands, unflinchingly, the truth of which the late American artist Robert Henri spoke: learning to look for the spirit...
