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30th Anniversary Celebration/Conference: "Her True-True Name" – Repeating Islands

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30th Anniversary Celebration/Conference: “Her True-True Name”
[Many thanks to Geoffrey Philp for bringing this item to our attention.] Here is news of a wonderful celebration: the 30
th birthday of
Her True-True Name, an anthology of women writers from the Caribbean, edited by Pamela Mordecai and Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson. [On a personal note, this book and Jamaica Kincaid’s
Down by the River were instrumental in shifting the focus of my doctoral studies to Caribbean women writers I am so grateful. Of course, I must also thank Elrica D’Oyen for the gift of
Her True-True Name and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for ....

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Christmas Edition 2020 – selection of poems from Jamaica and New Zealand

This year’s Meeting Ground Christmas edition features the works of poets from New Zealand and Jamaica. For this first instalment, the featured Jamaican poets are in the diaspora but born and mostly raised in Jamaica. In their work is the dialogue between the Jamaican Christmas past and the American Christmas present, reminding us, too, of Claude McKay’s “Flame Heart”, with the poinsettias red, blood-red in warm December. Here’s to a heart-warming Christmas and blissful reading!
– Ann-Margaret Lim (Jamaica)
Kia Ora (Welcome in Maori). It is a great pleasure for us poets in New Zealand to be sharing poetry and Manawa (Breath) with our brothers and sisters in Jamaica at this time of the year. We share so much common ground in our island nations – the love of the sea, mountains and friendly faces. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Arohanui (much love and deep affection). ....

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