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By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 164 (May/June 2021)
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
By Caribbean Beat ● July/August 2020 • Digital Issue
Gatekeeper | Showcase
A poem by Donna Aza Weir-Soley, from the new bilingual anthology The Sea Needs No Ornament
By Kelly Baker Josephs ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020)
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
By Caribbean Beat ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020)
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.”
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 160 (November/December 2019)
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
Embark, Literature, Reviews, People
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 158 (July/August 2019)
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
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 154 (November/December 2018)
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