“Nobody does it better” Last Thursday, Maud Newton posted the text of Russell Banks’s afterword to The Girl with the Golden Shoes, a novella by Colin Channer just published by Akashic Books. A review copy had arrived in the post a few days before, so I read Banks’s piece there instead of online–for, dear readers, [...]

Caribbean lit links roundup • At the Poetry Foundation blog, Harriet, Kwame Dawes recalls how he learned to love reciting poems out loud, and the importance of performance: I am trying to replicate the spirit of those memories of how I first encountered the spoken word every time I face an audience. • At Global [...]

The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga I’m always pleased when somethng we’ve published in the CRB turns up again on my desk bound in book covers. I was particularly pleased last week to get a copy of The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga, a new chapbook of poems by the young Puerto Rican [...]

Thanksgiving A poem by Egbert Martin (“Leo”), from the Heaventree Press website Up comes the sun,And lifts the vapours wide,As the bridegroom lifts the veilTo kiss his blushing bride.From wold, and wood,A whisper of content rolls by,Through the umbrageous brotherhood,Beneath the purple sky.Alone, and sad,I catch the pleasant light,And bless the Lord, in looking,For the [...]

Sunday papers roundup Links to some interesting reviews, columns, and features from newspapers in Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago: – In the Stabroek News, in his weekly “Arts on Sunday” column, Al Creighton writes on “East Indian drama in the Caribbean”, subtitled “still a work in progress”. “There is a very wide gap between [...]