One more for your calendar Here’s something I missed when I posted that list of upcoming Caribbean literary events yesterday: on Saturday 2 June, Derek Walcott will read from his work and participate in a conversation with William Sieghart, as part of the programme of the 2007 Hay Festival (which runs from 24 May to [...]

“A blog comes closest to the feel of a novel” I started off writing as a poet, and I’ve learned not everything can or should be a poem. As I’ve often said to my students in my creative writing workshops, a poem is that bok! of when the ball meets the bat and it shakes [...]

Sunday papers roundup Links to some interesting reviews, columns, and features from newspapers in Jamaica, Guyana, and Antigua: – The “Arts and Leisure” section of the Jamaica Gleaner includes Barbara Nelson’s review of C. Everard Palmer’s short novel A Time to Say Goodbye; as well as two short stories: “Street Boy”, by Karlene Morgan, and [...]

Gerard Gaskin: Trinidad Artists Artist Sabrina Charran; photographed October 2006 New York-based Trinidadian photographer Gerard Gaskin is working on an ongoing series called Trinidad Artists: portraits not just of visual artists but also of musicians and writers from his home island, all shot in deadpan close-up, at once formal and almost painfully intimate. A selection [...]

Caribbean lit links roundup • Geoffrey Philp celebrates Kamau Brathwaite’s birthday by posting a podcast of Brathwaite’s poem “Francina” and a new poem by Opal Palmer Adisa: reinscribinglove is not an idealbut power to rendertruth in the present…. Happy birthday, Kamau Brathwaite • Nalo Hopkinson, recovered from a short illness, posts two entries from her [...]