Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2013)
Jamaica in Black and White: Photography in Jamaica, c 1845–1920, by David Boxer and Edward Lucie-Smith (Macmillan Education, 304 pp, ISBN...
Hannah Lowe: making her claim
Despite the swell of her belly, Hannah Lowe is perched, apparently comfortably, on a wide bench at the British Library in London. The child...
Caribbean Bookshelf (September/October 2013)
All Decent Animals, by Oonya Kempadoo (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 260 pp, ISBN 9780374299712) As a designer for a prominent, unwieldy...
Wild words: Trinidadian poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Although Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné prefers to dwell in realms of possibility, rather than concrete certainty, the following is absolutely...
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2013)
The Comfort of All Things, by Ian McDonald (Moray House Trust, 83 pp, ISBN 9789768212832) Ian McDonald’s most recent collection...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2013)
What Things Are True, by Jackie Hinkson (Paria Publishing Company, 316 pp, ISBN 9789768054968) Tempting as it is to term this book...
Oonya Kempadoo: “I keep writing even when I’m trying not to”
Growing up in Guyana, I did live in a village like the one my first novel Buxton Spice is set in, and the political background was a huge...
Taste and see: an excerpt from Oonya Kempadoo’s All Decent Animals
The insignificant fruit catches blight on the tree. And all sugar apple trees are full of black biting ants. But the measly trees bear...
