by Eric Doumerc | 8, Jun 2022
Pierrot. John Robert Lee. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2020. 72 pages. £9.99 Famously described once by Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt as a “general man of letters” in their Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, John Robert Lee is a well-known poet, drama critic,...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Jun 2022
Malachi D. Smith. Tick Off (4-M Music/BMI, 2020). Malachi D. 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 late...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Jun 2022
Guabancex. Celia A Sorhaindo. London : Papillote Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-9997768-7-9. 32 pages. £ 6.50. Celia A Sorhaindo is a Dominican poet who lived many years in the UK and went back home in 2005. Her poems have appeared in various Caribbean publications and in...
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Jun 2022
McFarlane, Roy. Beginning With Your Last Breath. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2016. £ 9.99. ISBN: 9781911027089 Roy McFarlane was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage and has lived in the Black Country, an industrial area to the north of Birmingham, most of his life....
by Eric Doumerc | 8, Jun 2022
Channer, Colin. Providential. Leeds : Peepal Tree Press, 2015. £8,99. 92 pages. ISBN 9 781845 232481 Colin Channer was born in Jamaica. His father was a policeman and his mother a pharmacist. He is primarily known as a novelist, short-story writer and as one of the...
