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In his time

by Nicholas Laughlin on September 16, 2010

Wayne Brown (1944–2009). Photograph courtesy Mariel Brown The Trinidadian writer Wayne Brown — who died a year ago this week, on 15 September, 2009 — first came to widespread attention as a poet. His debut book, On the Coast (1972), won him the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and a Gregory Fellowship at the University of Leeds. [...]

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Something old, something new

by Nicholas Laughlin on August 18, 2010

Dust jacket of the first edition of Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement. Image from the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Literature, University of Illinois at Chicago library This week, the CRB glances towards both the past and the future of Caribbean writing. First, Jonathan Ali considers Andrew Salkey’s 1960 novel Escape to an [...]

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In hand: A Leaf in His Ear

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 29, 2010

The Leaf in His Ear Left, the golden leaf bears from his ear. At eighteen, Bushman fighting to control diamonds in his glass head. The waters of the river swirl by. I and I Rastaman, with knotty India hair, has long ago ceased. The good Lord swallowed him up. Into Guiana forests. North-west. Dogs bark [...]

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“A compulsive urgency to tell stories”

by Nicholas Laughlin on July 16, 2010

Edgar Mittelholzer For the past thirty years Mittelholzer disappeared totally, his books obtainable only second hand, and his reputation solidified as at best being that of a literary ancestor, a pot-boiling writer obsessed with sex and race-mixing and given to right-wing, authoritarian views . . . — At the Caribbean Literary Salon blog, Peepal Tree [...]

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South and north

by Nicholas Laughlin on June 9, 2010

Self-portrait by Dhiradj Ramsamoedj, stenciled in an old novel; part of his Adjie Gilas installation. Photograph by Christopher Cozier This week’s additions to the current issue of the CRB look south and north at a fascinating emerging artist and a major player in Caribbean publishing. “A place to stand” is a portfolio of images from [...]

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