No. 22 • July 2010
Image above: installation view of artist Karyn Olivier’s ACA Foods Free Library project; photograph courtesy the artist
•
.
Middling passages?
Brendan de Caires on Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class, by Belinda Edmondson
History’s garden
Nicolette Bethel on Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations, by Sidney W. Mintz
Life cycle
Ian Dieffenthaller on Artefacts of Presence: Collected Poems, 1964–2000, by Anson Gonzalez
The godfather
John T. Gilmore on Frank Collymore: A Biography, by Edward Baugh
Lonely Londoner
Jonathan Ali on Escape to an Autumn Pavement, by Andrew Salkey
Bridge beyond
Nadia Ellis on How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique
Revolutionary roads
Vanessa Spence on Eating Air, by Pauline Melville
The trip to bountiful
Geoffrey Philp on The Fullness of Everything, by Patricia Powell
Dear Eric
Andre Bagoo on The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey
Head of the class
Kelly Baker Josephs on You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, ed. David Austin
ALSO NOTED
Other new and recent books
.
CONVERSATION
“I must make trouble for the nation”
Christian Campbell talks to Lisa Allen-Agostini about shaping a poetic voice and his debut book, Running the Dusk
ON VIEW
Brave new world
Annie Paul reviews Young Talent V at the National Gallery of Jamaica,
plus a portfolio of work by all fourteen artists
NOTEBOOK
Sweet grouper throats
Glimpses of contemporary Miami; an essay-cum-poem by Mark Dow
PORTFOLIOS
Hungry for words
Images of Karyn Olivier’s ACA Foods Free Library project, and an interview with the artist
Moving pictures
Paramaribo’s painted wilde bussen
POEMS
• The Garden, by Ishion Hutchinson
• Even Here and The Nobodies of Never, by Vladimir Lucien