by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2023
Lorna Goodison, Mother Muse. Manchester, Carcanet, 2021, £ 10.99, 88 pages, ISBN : 978 I 80017 105 0 Lorna Goodison is a well-known Caribbean poet and was the Poet Laureate of Jamaica between 2017 and 2020. She won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2018 and was...
by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2023
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 | 8, Mar 2023
Malachi D Smith – The Gathering. APS Books, 2018. Malachi Smith was born in Westmoreland, Jamaica and joined the Jamaican Constabulary Force in the mid-1970s. He was a founding member of the group Poets in Unity, started by Chris Bailey and Tomlin Ellis in the...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
A review of Benjamin Zephaniah’s Too Black, Too Strong ( Bloodaxe Books, 2001). Benjamin Zephaniah has been active as a writer and a performance poet since the early 1980’s and he has gradually made a name for himself as a radical, revolutionary Black British“dub...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Ben E. Hunter – Soul Avenger, 2021. Ben E. Hunter has been active as a performing artist on the New Orleans reggae and folk/acoustic scene for many years now. He was born in Treme, New Orleans’ African-American district, and although his musical tastes...
