by Eric Doumerc | 4, Jun 2026
A review of Norman C. Stolzoff’s Wake the Town and Tell the People : Dancehall Culture in Jamaica (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000). Norman C. Stolzoff’s Wake the Town and Tell the People : Dancehall Culture in Jamaica is a comprehensive study of the...
by Eric Doumerc | 4, Jun 2026
A review of Asher and Martin Hoyles’ Moving Voices- Black Performance Poetry ( Hansib Publications, 2002). Moving Voices – Black Performance Poetry is a collection of oral poems by Black British writers, but it is also much more than a mere anthology. Indeed the book...
by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
Stick To My Roots – An Autobiography. Tippa Irie. London: Jacaranda Books, 2024. ISBN: 9781914344039. 342 pages. £ 10.99. Anthony “Tippa Irie” Henry is a Black British deejay or MC who started his career with the Saxon International Sound System and who...
by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
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 | 27, May 2026
Radical Normalisation. Celia A Sorhaindo. Manchester: Carcanet, 2022. ISBN: 978 1 80017 239 5 100 pages. Celia A Sorhaindo is a Dominican poet who emigrated with her family to the UK in 1976, and went back home in 2005. Her poems have appeared in various Caribbean...
