Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2016)
You Have You Father Hard Head, by Colin Robinson (Peepal Tree Press, 116 pp, ISBN 9781845233167) “I shall go without companions, and with...
Caribbean Playlist (July/August 2016)
San José Suite — Etienne Charles (Culture Shock Music) Jazz in the wider Americas is more than improvisation that engages the blues and...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2016)
The Pain Tree, by Olive Senior (Cormorant Books, 194 pp, ISBN 9781770864344) The magic of Olive Senior’s stories is that they weather...
Caribbean Playlist (May/June 2016)
Caribbean Roots — Anthony Joseph (Strut/Heavenly Sweetness) “Performance poet” and “spoken word artist” are two descriptives to...
Caribbean classics: under heavy manners
Ghetto poverty, gangland shootings, police brutality. Jamaica’s newspapers serve up a daily menu of atrocities and tragedies. Rival...
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2016)
The Whale House, by Sharon Millar (Peepal Tree Press, 128 pp, ISBN 9781845232498) Within an island, no matter how small, many other worlds...
Caribbean Playlist (March/April 2016)
Spice Island — Eddie Bullen (Thunder Dome Sound) Smooth jazz is a music genre purists love to hate, but in the Caribbean it is...
Turning point
The early 1950s were something of a boom time for Caribbean literature. London publishers were scrambling to acquire writers such as...
