Malachi D. Smith, Tick Off

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...

Celia A. Sorhaindo, Guabancex

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...

Roy Mc Farlane, Beginning With My Last Breath

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....

Colin Channer, Providential

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...

Kokumo Noxid, Dub Truth

Noxid, Kokumo. Dub Truth. Stourbridge: APS Publications, 2016. 127 pages, ISBN: 97811536979947 Gerald Dixon, aka Kokumo, was born in Jamaica. He has lived in Birmingham for many years and is well-known as a dub poet, workshop facilitator and storyteller. For a few...