by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
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...
by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
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 | 27, May 2026
Lorna Goodison, Mother Muse. Carcanet, 2021. 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 awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in...
by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
Blackman, Peter. Footprints – Poems by Peter Blackman. Middlesbrough : Smokestack Books, 2013. 106 pages. ISBN : 978 – 0 -9571722-8-9 Peter Blackman (1909-1993) was born in Barbados in 1909 and, after receiving a traditional colonial education at Harrison...
by Eric Doumerc | 27, May 2026
Coco Island. Christine Roseeta Walker. Manchester: Carcanet, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-80017-400-9. 125 pages. £ 11.99. Christine Roseeta Walker is a Jamaican poet and novelist who lives near Manchester and studied Creative Writing at the University of Salford and at the...