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...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and novelist who is currently the Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Iowa and was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection for his 2014 book of poems The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. In 2017...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Robinson, Roger. The Butterfly Hotel. Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2013 . 70 pages. ISBN : 9781845232191 Roger Robinson is a Trinidadian poet and performer who has been based in London for a number of years now. He has had poems published in important anthologies like...
