No. 10 • November 2006

Image above: The Portal (2006), by Stanley Greaves; 107 x 73 cm; courtesy the artist
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Mr B
Samuel B. Bandara, 6 December, 1944–25 September, 2006
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Reviews
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And did those feet . . .
Vahni Capildeo on University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose, by Martin Carter, ed. Gemma Robinson

O pioneer
Jeremy Taylor on Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor, 1913–1968: An Autobiography

Eyes left
Jeremy Taylor on Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story, by Paul Buhle

Heart of darkness
Simon Lee on The Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, by Louis Sala-Molins, trans. John Conteh-Morgan

Love, etc
Jonathan Ali on The Tree of Youth and Other Stories, by Robert Edison Sandiford

IN BRIEF
• Nicholas Laughlin on The Book of People, by Kelvin Poon Affat
• Wendy C. Kasten on PhD Stories, by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
• Nicholas Laughlin on Trinidad & Tobago: Photographs by Alex Smailes
• Nicholas Laughlin on Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems, by Lorna Goodison
• Dylan Kerrigan on Writing Rage, ed. Paula Morgan and Valerie Yousseff

ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books

Etc.

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LIFE AND TIMES
Laureate of nowhere
Laurence Breiner on Eric Roach

POEM
• Vignettes, by Gwyneth Barber Wood

CONVERSATION
Reading, writing, religion
Annie Paul talks to Mark McWatt and Marlon James

NOTEBOOK
• Rupert Roopnaraine on Stanley Greaves’s Shadows Move Among Them paintings
• Garnette Cadogan on the legacy of Louise Bennett-Coverly
• Caroline Taylor on Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night
• Nicholas Laughlin on writer’s block

PORTFOLIO
Electric company
Galvanize 2006