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At this time, every year, Saint Lucia celebrates the achievements of two of its sons, Sir Arthur Lewis and Sir Derek Walcott...

Brandon Wint’s collection, Divine Animal, showcases his facility with words. Like the work of spoken word artists such as Toronto’s Andrea Thompson, his poetry sings on paper. Divine Animal is rich with anger, mourning, yearning, celebration, sensuality, and hope. The collection is also a timely and important reflection on the origins of systemic racism and long-time police brutality against Black people in the Western world. In his prelude to Divine Animal, “Incantation: Memory of Wat...

THIS year’s annual Nobel Laureate Festival (NLF) will take on an unprecedented ‘digital production’ in keeping with regulatory protocols...

This latest issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature ( JWIL, Vol. 28 No. 2) is an open issue edited by Glyne Griffith. [Cover art features Mark Jason Weston’s “Keeping It Close” (9 x 12 inches, paper collage and watercolor pencil on watercolor paper, 2020).] Description: The issue features articles by established scholars in the field alongside work by advanced doctoral candidates, part of the newer cohort of Caribbeanist scholars. Although the selected essays are not formally org...

Tune-in to Trinity Radio Trinity Communications Network (TCN) will this month relaunch its internet radio station Trinity Radio based at the Living Water Community (LWC) Centre, Frederick Street. A satellite of the station will be operating out of the Catholic Centre, 31 Independence Square, Port of Spain. LWC co-foundress Rhonda Maingot said Trinity Radio has been around for many years and reached a wide audience online “and had people from all over the world on it on a regular basis.” A...

The Atlantic The memoirs, novels, and poetry that stood out most CHARLIE LE MAIGNAN This year has highlighted the particularities of that thing called reading. Some found books impossible to pick up; sustained attention to text on a page is hard when the world is in so much pain. Others turned to literature anew, rediscovering the ways it can refresh and inspire. Below are the titles we were most drawn to in 2020: a wide-ranging list that includes new spins on epic poems, stories about the inte...

Santa’s cause is about love Published by Tags What’s it like portraying Santa Claus? LARA PICKFORD-GORDON sat down with a familiar face about the spiritual side of playing ‘St Nick’. As a Christian, permanent deacon Rev Derek Walcott, ‘Uncle Derek’ as he is called by children, has been spreading the message of God’s love. For the past 39 years, he has also been doing this as Santa Claus. Subscribe or login below to view the rest of this story.

A review of Peggy Carr’s SHAPE OF A WARRIOR – A Pre-Columbian Vincentian Story Author Peggy Carr (seated right) signing copies of her book ‘Shape of a Warrior’ at the book’s launch Social Share by Andrea Bowman In the ‘Author’s Note’ of her first novel SHAPE OF A WARRIOR, Peggy Carr states that, “the writing of this book has been an intriguing journey in tribute to the people who gave St Vincent and the Grenadines a place in history as the last Caribbean terr...

Ingrid Persaud Ingrid Persaud, Trinidad-born writer living in London, whose debut novel Love After Love published in 2020 by Faber in the UK is shortlisted for the hugely prestigious Costa First Novel Award. Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was an academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect, The Guardian, The Independent, N...

Show more In the Castle of My Skin is the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, originally published in 1953 by Michael Joseph in London. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the books US edition. Its an autobiographical coming-of-age novel - set in the 1930s and 40s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised - and follows th...