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Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

Author : Peekash Press
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617754382
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean written by Peekash Press and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes. With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the best, new, previously unpublished voices from the Caribbean. This is a generation that has absorbed Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Martin Carter, and Lorna Goodison, while finding its own distinctive voice. Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean. The debut title from Peekash, Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, was published in 2014. Kwame Dawes is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, most recently Duppy Conqueror, as well as two novels, numerous anthologies, and plays. He has won Pushcart prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2013 awardee of the Paul Engel Prize. At the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, he is a Chancellor’s Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. Dawes is the associate poetry editor at Peepal Tree Press, the series editor of the University of South Carolina Poetry Series, and the founding director of the African Poetry Book Fund. Dawes also teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program, and is the director of the biennial Calabash International Literary Festival.

Coming Up Hot

Author : Danielle Boodoo-Fortune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845233099
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Coming Up Hot written by Danielle Boodoo-Fortune and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020: Volume 3

Author : Ronald Cummings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108597769
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020: Volume 3 by : Ronald Cummings

Download or read book Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020: Volume 3 written by Ronald Cummings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.

Thicker Than Water: New Writing from the Caribbean

Author : Funso Aiyejina
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1636140238
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Thicker Than Water: New Writing from the Caribbean written by Funso Aiyejina and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest release from Caribbean publisher Peekash Press celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature. Difficult parents and lost children, unfaithful spouses and spectral lovers, mysterious ancestors and fierce bloodlines—the stories, poems, and memoirs in this new anthology tackle everything that’s most complicated and thrilling about family and history in the Caribbean. Collecting new writing by finalists for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, a groundbreaking award administered by the Bocas Lit Fest, Thicker Than Water shows us how a new generation of Caribbean authors address perennial questions of love, betrayal, and memory in small places where personal and collective histories are often troublingly intertwined. Featuring brand-new writing from: Lisa Allen-Agostini, Nicolette Bethel, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Vashti Bowlah, Richard Georges, Zahra Gordon, Barbara Jenkins, Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming, Ira Mathur, Diana McCaulay, Sharon Millar, Monica Minott, Philip Nanton, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Shivanee Ramlochan, Judy Raymond, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Lynn Sweeting, and Peta-Gaye V. Williams.

New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

Author : Karen Lord
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755273
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean written by Karen Lord and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Caribbean has a powerful, modern tradition of fantastic literature that's on full display in this anthology of original fiction by writers from Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Bermuda...None of these writers is likely to be familiar to American audiences, but all are worth getting to know. Readers who love the writing of Nalo Hopkinson, Tobias S. Buckell, and Lord herself will savor this volume." --Publishers Weekly, Starred review "New Worlds, Old Ways fulfills its promise of arriving at a recognizable genre of Caribbean speculative fiction. Prior to this collection we have not had any reader-friendly approaches that have directly addressed the genre of Caribbean speculative fiction. Lord, and the various writers in this collection, have given readers access to a hitherto unexplored genre, one that differentiates as well as connects to the treasure trove of Caribbean literature. The collection is a boon for scholars and reading aficionados of the Speculative Fiction genre. And as the editor states, true to its world, New Worlds, Old Ways offers both depth and delight without disappointment. It suggests tthat if one looks closely enough, they will find that Caribbean fiction has always been speculative." --SX Salon Do not be misled by the "speculative" in the title. Although there may be robots and fantastical creatures, these common symbols are tools to frame the familiar from fresh perspectives. Here you will find the recent past and ongoing present of government and society with curfews, crime, and corruption; the universal themes of family, growth and death, love and hate; the struggle to thrive when power is capricious and revenge too bittersweet. Here too is the passage of everything—old ways, places, peoples, and ourselves—leaving nothing behind but memories, histories, and stories. This anthology speaks to the fragility of our Caribbean home, but reminds the reader that although home may be vulnerable, it is also beautifully resilient. The voice of our literature declares that in spite of disasters, this people and this place shall not be wholly destroyed. Read for delight, then read for depth, and you will not be disappointed. Brand-new stories by: Tammi Browne-Bannister, Summer Edward, Portia Subran, Brandon O'Brien, Kevin Jared Hosein, Richard B. Lynch, Elizabeth J. Jones, Damion Wilson, Brian Franklin, Ararimeh Aiyejina, and H.K. Williams. New Worlds, Old Ways is the third publication of Peekash Press, an imprint of Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press committed to supporting the emergence of new Caribbean writing, and as part of the CaribLit project.

Talk Yuh Talk

Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919461
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Talk Yuh Talk written by Kwame Senu Neville Dawes and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 30 years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the US in the lyrics of reggae music, but that is only one aspect of a tradition characterized by continuing tension within a diverse heritage. Interviews in this collection reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from those poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae music and yard theater to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Dawes teaches English at the University of South Carolina. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The Star Side of Bird Hill

Author : Naomi Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109162
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Star Side of Bird Hill written by Naomi Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jackson’s stunning debut novel This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother’s limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations, accompanies her grandmother in her role as a midwife, and investigates their mother’s mysterious life. This tautly paced coming-of-age story builds to a crisis when the father they barely know comes to Bird Hill to reclaim his daughters, and both Phaedra and Dionne must choose between the Brooklyn they once knew and loved or the Barbados of their family. Naomi Jackson’s Barbados and her characters are singular, especially the wise Hyacinth and the heartbreaking young Phaedra, who is coming into her own as a young woman amid the tumult of her family. Praise for The Star Side of Bird Hill: “Once in a while, you’ll stumble onto a book like this, one so poetic in its descriptions and so alive with lovable, frustrating, painfully real characters, that your emotional response to it becomes almost physical. . . . The dual coming-of-age story alone could melt the sternest of hearts, but Jackson’s exquisite prose is a marvel too. . . . A gem of a book.” —Entertainment Weekly (A)

Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry

Author : Denise deCaires Narain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134601824
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry written by Denise deCaires Narain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.

You Have You Father Hard Head

Author : Colin Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845233167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book You Have You Father Hard Head written by Colin Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Robinson's long-awaited debut collection, You Have You Father Hard Head, represents a nuanced but unswerving engagement with desire and intimacy as he explores what it means to be a Caribbean son negotiating the complexities of relationships between men. In poems of generous vulnerability and intimacy, Robinson captures the voice of boys on whose spirits and "hard heads" their mothers live out the memory of their fathers.

The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry

Author : Ian McDonald
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435988173
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry written by Ian McDonald and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.

Pepperpot

Author :
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617752711
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Pepperpot written by and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

Author : Shivanee Ramlochan
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845233631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting written by Shivanee Ramlochan and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards.

Caribbean Poetry Now

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340395868
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Poetry Now written by Stewart Brown and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing Water

Author : Tony Kellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Water written by Tony Kellman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. The poems in CROSSING WATER reflect the multiple face of the Caribbean and, by so doing, defy any easy labeling or categorization. They celebrate a region's language and customs, landscape and seascape, over which Mammon's dark clouds hang threateningly. While the colonial and neo-colonial disappointments may overshadow the beauty, these poems bear witness that they do not (indeed, cannot) destroy it. CROSSING WATER is, therefore, about capacities for survival, ways of defining who one is, ways of affirming the true self.

Caribbean poetry now

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean poetry now written by Stewart Brown and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Midland

Author : Kwame Dawes
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane
ISBN 13 : 9780864922991
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Midland written by Kwame Dawes and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane. This book was released on 2001 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kwame Dawes is one of the premiere reggae poets of our time. A musician, actor, scholar, and writer with roots in Ghana, the Caribbean, and Canada, Dawes is one of those rare artists who can move from lyrics to poetry in a single beat. In this new collection of poetry suffused with raw sensuality and a reggae aesthetic, Dawes presents a collision of sounds, tensions, and rhythms. Drawing deeply on his experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, England, and the American South, Dawes seeds his poems with questions of inheritance and "hieroglyphs of belonging." His portrait of an old man on a tropical beach is shaded with memories of colder places. In the 11-page title poem, "a dialect of ire" unfolding like "the hung man dangling/from a live oak," Dawes transforms the poetry of protest into a compassionate search for the "dusty graves" of his ancestors, insisting that his readers look beneath "affinities of skin, sin and suffering" to the roots of a brutal inheritance. In "Excursion to Port Royal," he confronts the abject hunger of history. Like Dawes's earlier work, the poems in Midland treat the mysteries of displacement, loss, and belonging. Now, he has added to this mix the slavery upon which the American South was built and which continues to haunt it today. Midland is Dawes's seventh poetry collection and the first to be published simultaneously in Canada and the US. Prior to publication, it was awarded the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press.

Nicolás Guillén, Popular Poet of the Caribbean

Author : Ian Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nicolás Guillén, Popular Poet of the Caribbean written by Ian Smart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Guillen is generally lionized by the critics as an exponent of an exotic version of mainstream Latin American poetry, a somewhat avant-garde negroid poetry (literally, poesia negroide) He has also been claimed by the experts, and justly so, as a member of the Afro-American literary community, so his name is mentioned in the same breath as those eminent literary figures who were the principals in the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes. The West Indian character owes its distinctiveness to the African cultural heritage and is, in effect, a legitimate neo-African cultural manifestation. This African West Indian character accounts for the originality and basic value of Guillen 's art and links Guillen inextricably to the rich popular poetic tradition of the region.