https://archive.org/details/tangle-ft

Tangle: Poems by Rochelle Ward; Faizah Tabasamu; Jane Collins

Topics
#Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #StMartin, #SaintMartin, #SintMaarten, #Soualiga, #Swaliga

"Cover: Sundiata Lake, Nimojin Media Design.
Photography: Thema Bissereth, 2020; courtesy R. Ward, 2017."

Jamaica's Poet Laureate 2017-2020 Lorna Goodison, who has been hailed as "one of the finest Caribbean poets of her generation", was born on August 1, 1947.

August 1 is celebrated as Emancipation Day in Jamaica.

On her essays and how she got into writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eor2h2KYCm0

On how her mother influenced her writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i1w3McxNl0

#LornaGoodison
#PoetLaureate
#Jamaica
#EmancipationDay
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Writers
#Writing
#OnThisDay

“...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.”
― Earl Lovelace, an award-winning Trinidadian author, playwright, & short-story writer, was born on July 13, 1935

Read: https://archive.org/details/dragoncantdance00love

#Quote
#Caribbean
#ReadCaribbean
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Bookstodon
#OnThisDay

https://archive.org/details/pawol-sent-lisi

Pawol Sent-Lisi : Poésie Kreol-English by Kendel Hippolyte; John Robert Lee; Egbert Lucien; Randolph Henry; Irvin Desir; Joseph Alexander; Mac Donald Dixon; Cindy Marie-Augustin; Melchoir Henry; Jane King; Christine Joseph; Ginerva Davidson; Lorena Edmund; Melanie Daniel; Theresa Augustin; Melania Daniel

Topics#
#StLucianCreole, #Kwéyòl, #AntilleanCreole, #poetry, #Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #SaintLucianpoetry, #SaintLucianliterature, #poizi, #poizianKwéyòl

"Ce recueil a ete publie en AOUT 1991, a l'occasion du festival Culturel 'Regard sur Sainte-Lucie.'"

Claude McKay: Father of Jamaican poetry

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/art-culture/claude-mckay-father-of-jamaican-poetry/

#Jamaica
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Poetry

"I watch my father at his honest toil,
And wonder how he stands the sun’s fierce heat."
— Claude McKay, from "A Dream" in Songs of Jamaica

https://poets.org/poem/dream-3

#Jamaica
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Poem
#Poetry
#FathersDay

@poetry

what is it about #Martinique? I have just counted that I have read six writers from there. Césaire, Fanon, Glissant, Chamoiseau (who is amazing, I want to read more) and Malcom Ferdinand. Who have I missed, and when will I get around to reading a single author from Guadeloupe? #CaribbeanLiterature

London ecology and politics people -- going to this at the Showroom, the launch of Manifestos by Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, first book in Planetarities series from G*ldsmiths Press. Friday 16 June. #CaribbeanLiterature #ÉdouardGlissant #PatrickChamoiseau
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-manifestos-by-edouard-glissant-and-patrick-chamoiseau-tickets-643852940477

The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts tomorrow. I still remember how Hurricane Gilbert squatted over Jamaica for three nightmarish days before leaving.

Olive Senior's "Hurricane Story, 1988" connects the other hurricane stories in the "Travellers' Tales" section of her poetry collection, Gardening in the Tropics, which is an absolute must-read.

#OliveSenior
#Poetry
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#HurricaneSeason

The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts tomorrow. I still remember how Hurricane Gilbert squatted over Jamaica for three nightmarish days before leaving.

Olive Senior's "Hurricane Story, 1988" connects to the other hurricane stories in the "Travellers' Tales" section of her poetry collection, Gardening in the Tropics, which is an absolute must-read.

#OliveSenior
#Poetry
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#HurricaneSeason

Happy Birthday to Jamaica Kincaid (formerly Elaine Potter Richardson), my favourite Antiguan author, who was born on May 25, 1949.

In an earlier post, I told y'all that I’m in a We Read Jamaica Kincaid group on Instagram. We’ve been reading her books in publication order.

If you’d like to nice up your to-read list, join in: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYHtBqLbJ0/

A Small Place is ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐/5

#WeReadJamaicaKincaid
#ReadCaribbean
#Antigua
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanAuthors
#CaribbeanLiterature
#OnThisDay

Happy Birthday to Jamaica Kincaid (formerly Elaine Potter Richardson), my favourite Antiguan author, who was born on May 25, 1949. In an earlier post, I told y'all that I’m in a We Read Jamaica Kincaid group on Instagram. We’ve been reading her books in publication order.

If you’d like to nice up your to-read list, join in: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYHtBqLbJ0/

A Small Place is ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐/5

#WeReadJamaicaKincaid
#ReadCaribbean
#Antigua
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanAuthors
#CaribbeanLiterature
#OnThisDay

Reflections on the critical and intellectual legacies of J. Michael Dash especially encouraged. Short critical essays and creative pieces are equally welcome, as are French-language submissions; please see our submissions guidelines for more details. Send queries to the Editor at rlm[at]smallaxe.net. Deadline: August 15, 2023.

http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/submissions

#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
#CaribbeanStudies

Wearing my professional hat:

sx salon (an open-access platform for Caribbean creative and other writing) welcomes submissions for upcoming issue on Francophone Caribbean literature, broadly construed. We're particularly interested in work on and by lesser-known writers and from less-often-represented sites (such as St Martin and French Guiana) and in work that goes beyond the familiar in content, theme and style.

http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon

#CaribbeanLiterature #CaribbeanPoetry #CaribbeanStudies

https://archive.org/details/ywnomad

Nomad by Yvonne Weekes

Topics
#exile, #diaspora, #montserrat, #Caribbeanpoetry, #Caribbeanliterature, #literatureoftheCaribbean, #SoufrièreHills, #SoufrièreHillseruptions, #SoufrièreHillsvolcano

Philipsburg, St. Martin : House of Nehesi Publishers

Hey, Bibliophiles!

The NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago is back in-person, and will be streaming live, starting April 28. It's free and open to everyone, so get in on it!

https://www.bocaslitfest.com/festival/live/

#Bocas2023
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanBooks
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanWriters
#ReadCaribbean
#Bookstodon

@bookstodon

Literary legend Dr. Erna Brodber—a Jamaican author, community activist, cultural historian, & sociologist—was born on this day in 1940. Her body of work, which celebrates the folk cultures of the African Diaspora, has been studied in universities around the world. Her sister is Velma Pollard, another acclaimed Jamaican author.

Dr. Brodber’s presentation on how she came to see herself as an “intellectual worker”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwAiUAQaAbw

#Jamaica
#CaribbeanLiterature
#BlackMastodon
#OnThisDay

Andrea Brady, wise poet and critic, recommended #Chamoiseau in such a way that I realised I should read him. This book, 1997, is astonishing (in dialogue with #Glissant), and the translation by Linda Coverdale, 2018 (booksellers: New Press NY/Dialogue Books UK) is a feat. #VendrediLecture #bookstodon #CaribbeanLiterature #francophonie

More books for my to-read list! 📚

These 3 books by writers from Trinidad and Tobago are shortlisted for the overall OCM Bocas Prize, which will be announced on April 29 at the 2023 NGC Bocas Lit Fest.

Poetry:
Sonnets for Albert, by Anthony Joseph

Fiction:
When We Were Birds, by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Non-fiction:
Love the Dark Days, by Ira Mathur

More details: https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2023/04/02/2023-ocm-bocas-prize-shortlist/

#Caribbean
#CaribbeanBooks
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Books
#Bookstodon

Professor Marcia Douglas, who portrayed Queen Nanny in the official trailer for the Reimagining Nanny documentary, is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award for Fiction.

https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/marcia-douglas#/

#Jamaica
#JamaicanAuthors
#CaribbeanAuthors
#CaribbeanBooks
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Caribbean
#Writers
#BlackMastodon