by Eric Doumerc | 14, Jun 2024
Geoffrey Philp. Archipelagos. Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2023. 61 pages. ISBN:13:9781845235505 Archipelagos is Geoffrey Philp’s seventh poetry collection, but the Miami-based Jamaican writer is also well-known for his numerous short stories, novels and...
by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2022
Blackman, Peter. Footprints – Poems by Peter Blackman. Middlesbrough : Smokestack Books, 2013. 106 pages. ISBN : 978 – 0 -9571722-8-9 Peter Blackman (1909-1993) was born in Barbados in 1909 and, after receiving a traditional colonial education at Harrison...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Jun 2022
McFarlane, Roy. The Healing Next Time. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2018. 79 pages. ISBN: 9781911027454 Roy McFarlane is a British poet of Jamaican parentage who was born in Birmingham and has lived most of his life in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands. In 2009 he was...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Jun 2022
Unwritten – Caribbean Poems After the First World War. Edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2018. ISBN: 9781911027294. 122 pages. Unwrittten – Caribbean Poems After the First World War is a collection of poems which were...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Jun 2022
Kay, Jackie, James Procter, and Gemma Robinson, eds. Out of Bounds – British Black and Asian Poets. Newcastle Upon Tyne : Newcastle University in association with Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2012. 368 pages. ISBN : 978 1 85224 929 8 Out of Bounds : British Black and Asian...