No. 19 • February 2009
Image above: The N Train (2008), by Philip Thomas; mixed media on linen, 150 x 66 inches; courtesy the artist and the National Gallery of Jamaica
Reviews.
The X file
Jeremy Taylor on Michael X: A Life in Black and White, by John L. Williams
Praise poems
Mervyn Morris on Selected Poems, by Ian McDonald, ed. Edward Baugh
Family matters
Melissa Richards on Pynter Bender, by Jacob Ross
Home and away
Rhoda Bharath on Caribbean Literature After Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, ed. Bill Schwartz, and A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace at 70, ed. Funso Aiyejina
On broken ground
F.S.J. Ledgister on Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, ed. Annie Paul
The contender
Sharon Millar on Sylvester Devenish: Trinidad’s Poet, by Anthony de Verteuil
IN BRIEF
• Ronald Cummings on Valmiki’s Daughter, by Shani Mootoo
• Geoffrey Philp on Daddy Sharpe, by Fred W. Kennedy
• Lisa Allen-Agostini on Into the Mosaic, by Marlene St Rose
ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books
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READING LIST
Browsing the ether
The 2008 CRB books of the year
The CRB’s editors recommend ten outstanding books from last year
CONVERSATION
“Where the borders are”
Leonardo Padura talks to Gavin O’Toole about journalism, literature, and freedom of expression in Cuba
INFLUENCES
Prosimetrum
Fred D’Aguiar on the elasticity of space and time in the fiction of Wilson Harris
PORTFOLIO
Herd instincts
Nicholas Laughlin on T’in Cow Fat Cow and mas as protest art
POEMS
• Just Like That, by Tanya Shirley
• A Surveyor’s Journal, by Ishion Hutchinson
