Topic Tag: poetry

Embark, Literature, Reviews, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

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

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Immerse, Literature

Gatekeeper | Showcase

A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament

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Literature, People, Barbados

Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Icon

On his ninetieth birthday, 11 May, 2020, Kelly Baker Josephs explains the groundbreaking influence of the late Barbadian poet and scholar, perennially ahead of his time. An online exclusive

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Embark, Literature

Roger Robinson: A Portable Paradise | The Read

Delving with equal insight into pleasure and sorrow, Robinson argues that “earthly joy is, or ought to be, just within, but is often just beyond our reach.”

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2020) | Book reviews

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

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2019) | Book reviews

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

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Embark, Literature, Reviews, People

Bookshelf (July/August 2019) | Book reviews

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

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2018) | Book reviews

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

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