May 5, 2007

Nikolai Noel: Angels at Attention Angels at Attention: Ye Shall Know Them, Them that Sold Doves, by the Trinidadian artist Nikolai Noel; from the solo show Forgiveness. “The purpose of my work is to question the way we structure our civilisation,” Noel says, and in these paintings and drawings he playfully borrows the iconography of [...]

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May 5, 2007

News: Markham long-listed for O’Connor Award The news has (somewhat belatedly) reached us here at the CRB that E.A. Markham’s latest book, At Home with Miss Vanesa, has been long-listed for the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The four-book shortlist will be announced in July, the final award in September. Meanwhile, At Home [...]

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May 4, 2007

Dream books In the May 2007 CRB, Brendan de Caires ends his review of Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems and Edward Baugh’s Derek Walcott with this daydream of a complete edition of Walcott’s works, literary and artistic: The large-format editions of The Bounty and Tiepolo’s Hound suggest that a brave publisher really should consider a stately, [...]

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May 4, 2007

Caribbean lit links roundup • The Literary Saloon posts a link to a review of Havana Blue, by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. • John Mair reports in the Stabroek News on the publication of Guyanese Achievers UK, by Vidur Dindayal, a “who’s who” of “the Guyanese mafia” in Britain. • In the Trinidad and [...]

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May 4, 2007

“Every subsequent writer on Guiana has stolen more or less of the subject matter” Since 1846, the Hakluyt Society, based in London, has undertaken the publication of “scholarly editions of primary sources on the ‘Voyages and Travels’ undertaken by individuals from many parts of the globe. These include early accounts dealing with the geography, ethnology [...]

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May 4, 2007

“A deep, almost visceral love…” It is as difficult to generalise about an anthology of Caribbean poetry as it is about the region itself, for as we know, this archipelago of islands and mainland territories is immensely varied and never predictable. And this is the case, too, with this collection, which displays a vast range [...]

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May 4, 2007

Take the CRB reader survey The CRB is currently doing a reader survey, to find out more about who reads the magazine and how, what our readers like and don’t like, and what we can do to improve it. Whether you’re a subscriber, or you borrow someone else’s copy, or you read the magazine online, [...]

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May 3, 2007

“I wanted to ask after Augustus” Anu Lakhan, one of the CRB’s most prolific contributors, was at the problem-plagued “Evening of Appreciation” organised by the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies as part of the recent V.S. Naipaul celebrations. The audio system refused to work properly, putting nerves on edge, and [...]

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May 3, 2007

From the CRB scrapbook Catherine and Stuart Hall, reading the first issue of the CRB at Hellshire Beach, Jamaica; June 2004. Photo by CRB contributor Annie Paul

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May 2, 2007

By way of introduction With the May 2007 issue of The Caribbean Review of Books, we mark our third anniversary–three years since the magazine, once published in Jamaica, was revived in Trinidad with a new editorial team and a fresh sense of purpose. Over the last three years, we have tried to cover the literary [...]

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May 2, 2007

Caribbean lit links roundup • Geoffrey Philp writes about the “great imperative” of his life, and asks his readers to think about theirs. • Marlon James writes about meeting–or, rather not meeting–Salman Rushdie. • Jeremy Taylor wonders why V.S. Naipaul visited Trinidad earlier this month, and why Trinidadians were “taken aback by the man’s rudeness”. [...]

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