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The novel Miss Allen knead AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Lisa Allen-Agostini and my novel The Bread the Devil Knead was published last week. I come from straight outta Morvant, no crossover. I lived in my mother's house overlooking the traffic lights at Morvant Junction from age two until my mid-20s. I live now in Backayard, a village in the rainforest high up Simeon Road, Petit Valley. We live downstairs my husband Brian McMeo's parents' house. My mom, Dolsie, was a widow with seven children. My father had two before he had my brother Dennis and me with Dolsie. It wasn't the Brady Bunch, th...

by Bajan Reporter / May 7th, 2021 Tamara Lowe, a poet from the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, kicked off the annual Bocas Lit Fest with her poem “ To You Who Love Him.” She was the first in a packed lineup of Regional authors, poets and spoken word artists to perform at the 2021 staging of the annual three-day event presented by the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago. “ This is so surreal for me,” says Lowe, who made her Festival debut this year and was encouraged to enter by Dominican author/poet and 2020 Bocas participant Celia Sorhaindo. “ I submitted the poem wi...

Caribbean books at the top Debbie Jacob - THIS YEAR’S NGC Bocas Lit Fest promised an event that I waited for with bated breath: the list of the top 100 Caribbean books that shaped us. The list lived up to all those feelings that such book lists evoke: nostalgia, joy, confusion, sadness, disappointment and even anger over books that didn’t make the list. What is missing from the list tells a story just as important as books that did make the list. Non-fiction books barely made the list. Post-colonial literature proved scarce. Many books on this list shaped my perceptions of the Caribbean...

The way ahead for us after covid19 Sunday 2 May 2021 An aerial view of Morvant Junction where roadworks are underway. The private sector must be integrated in government plans for the future of the economy. Photo by Jeff K. Mayers The matter of how our region navigates the immediate future is not a small one. I am sure it keeps certain people awake at night just contemplating how we suddenly went from orange alert for the short and medium term to instant red alert for the foreseeable future. I have absolutely no responsibility regarding how we position ourselves, except as an individual, to d...

St Lucian Poet Canisia Lubrin Wins OCM Bocas Best Book Prize April 28, 2021 Share this post: A BOOK-LENGTH poem that the OCM Bocas prize for Caribbean Literature judges consider “post-colonial poetry at its best” has triumphed in the stakes for best book by a Caribbean writer published last year. The Dyzgraphxst by St Lucia-born poet Canisia Lubrin is the 2021 winner of the prize, which comes with an award of US$10,000 courtesy One Caribbean Media. 2021 winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Canisia Lubrin. – Photo courtesy Bocas Lit Fest It is the second consecutive ye...