By Paul Keens-Douglas ● Issue 23 (January/February 1997)
Caribbean Poets: Vibert Reach Home
He had an eventful day. But when he got home the truth began to emerge. Paul Keens-Douglas tells the story . . . De boy leave here good...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 24 (March/April 1997)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 1997)
Visitor’s Guide To The Windward Islands Don Philpott (Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston/Moorland Publishing Company, UK, 1996: ISBN...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 25 (May/June 1997)
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 1997)
Lilian’s Songs Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1996; ISBN 0–9681745–0–7) In these poems, more than ever, Cecil Gray focuses on...
By Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 33 (September/October 1998)
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 1998)
TRAVEL Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among The Converted Peoples V. S. Naipaul (Random House 1998: ISBN 0-375-50118-5) One gets used to...
By Kevin Baldeosingh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 34 (November/December 1998)
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1998)
POETRY Leaving the Dark Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1998; ISBN 0-9681745-1-5) This collection of poems by Cecil Gray, his third, is a...
By Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH THE TRUE VOICE OF CALYPSO The Political Calypso: True Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago 1962-1987 Louis Regis (The Press...
Culture, Music, Arts, United Kingdom
By James Ferguson ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice
For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...
By Philip Nanton ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
London calling
When we think of the surge of literary creativity that occurred in the English-speaking Caribbean immediately after World War Two, the...