by Nicholas Laughlin on August 17, 2010
Marcus Garvey. Photograph courtesy Oxford University Press As I mentioned in the previous post, today is V.S. Naipaul’s birthday — which he shares, by [insert preferred adjective] coincidence, with Marcus Garvey. Geoffrey Philp is celebrating the latter over at his blog, with a poem (“Marcus, the dream is never too much to bear”) and a [...]
by Nicholas Laughlin on August 7, 2010
• “Decanting gold and silver from her wrists”: “Yarn Spinner”, a new poem by Pamela Mordecai, at Geoffrey Philp’s blog: http://bit.ly/9MS4ou • Writer and scholar Sylvia Wynter honoured in Jamaica independence national awards: http://bit.ly/9euwte • Charmaine Valere on Tanya Shirley’s She Who Sleeps With Bones: http://bit.ly/93M9hQ • “Grace Jones on Writing” (as it were), at [...]
by Nicholas Laughlin on July 20, 2010
Frank Collymore reading a copy of Bim in his garden. Photograph courtesy the Estate of Frank A. Collymore This week the CRB publishes Geoffrey Philp’s review of Patricia Powell’s novel The Fullness of Everything; a new poem, “The Garden”, by Ishion Hutchinson; and John T. Gilmore’s review of Edward Baugh’s new biography of Frank Collymore, [...]
by Nicholas Laughlin on May 26, 2010
The CRB’s editorial engine is running again, though with the occasional cough and splutter — we’re not yet at cruising speed, as it were. But our May 2010 issue — our first in a year — is under way, with the first new reviews appearing at the start of the month and another batch published [...]