By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
Bookshelf (Nov/Dec 2017) | Book Reviews
This month’s reading picks in our books column
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 147 (September/October 2017)
Bookshelf (September/October 2017) | Book Reviews
Hadriana in All My Dreams, by René Depestre, translated by Kaiama L. Glover Akashic Books, 256 pp, ISBN 9781617756191 Here is a novel...
Immerse, Literature, British Virgin Islands
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 147 (September/October 2017)
Richard Georges: “I let the tides tug me along” | Q&A
These poems speak compellingly about British Virgin Islander history on land and at sea. From what emotional terrain do you draw the...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 146 (July/August 2017)
Bookshelf (July/August 2017) | Book Reviews
River Dancer, by Ian McDonald Hansib Publications, 112 pp, ISBN 9781910553268 “I have the feeling jaguars are nearby,” declares one of...
Immerse, Culture, Literature, Reviews, Trinidad and Tobago
By Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 146 (July/August 2017)
Shivanee Ramlochan: “The poems must have decided on me” | Own Words
My mother is an English literature teacher, and when I was growing up books were more my friends than human friends were. There was always...
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 145 (May/June 2017)
Bookshelf (May/June 2017) | Book Reviews
Augustown by Kei Miller Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 256 pp, ISBN 9781474603591 In Augustown — a place which is at once like the real-life...
Embark, Literature, People, St. Lucia
By Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 145 (May/June 2017)
Remembering Derek Walcott (1930–2017) | Icon
He was a prodigy, and he knew it. He self-published his first book, 25 Poems, when he was just eighteen, paying the printer’s bill with...
Embark, Literature, Reviews, Food and Cuisine
By Shivanee Ramlochan ● Issue 144 (March/April 2017)
Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 2017) | Book Reviews
Canouan Suite and Other Pieces, by Philip Nanton (Papillote Press, 75 pp, ISBN 9780993108679) Paintings can sometimes speak words; poems...