By Georgia Popplewell and Simon Lee ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Upbeat
CHRISTMAS Wrap It Up Panazz (BBLN 1999) If the title of Panazz Players’ latest CD seems unsubtle (wrap this CD up and give it as a gift...
By Kevin Baldeosingh, Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 1998)
FICTION The Ventriloquist’s Tale Pauline Melville (Bloomsbury,1997; ISBN 0-7475-3150-1) The Ventriloquist’s Tale contains 166 pages of...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 5 (Spring 1993)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Spring 1993)
Travels with my Trombone Henry Shukman (HarperCollins 1992; hardback) Shukman, a young musician in love with South America and its rhythms,...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Summer 1993)
Satellite City and other stories Alecia McKenzie (Longman Caribbean Writers, 1992) This is a first collection of stories by one of the most...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Autumn 1992)
The Islands and the Sea John A. Murray (ed.) (Oxford University Press, hardback, 1991) Subtitled Five Centuries of Nature Writing from the...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 7 (Autumn 1993)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Autumn 1993)
Tanti at de Oval Selected works by Paul Keens-Douglas (paperback) Storyteller Paul Keens-Douglas, whose performances are known up and down...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
Caribbean Bookshelf (Winter 1993)
Selected Poetry Derek Walcott, with introduction and notes by Wayne Brown (Heinemann Caribbean Writers 1993) The awarding of the 1992 Nobel...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
Upbeat (Winter 1993)
Joy and Blues Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (Virgin Records) Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, sons and daughters of reggae legends,...