by Eric Doumerc | 7, Sep 2022
An interview with Oku Onuora (15 August 2016, Jamaica School of Drama): Eric Doumerc: I’m not going to ask you the usual questions about dub poetry or about yourtself, because, quite frankly, your biography is well-known, like how you were jailed and then got...
by Eric Doumerc | 7, Sep 2022
An interview with Mutabaruka (Jamaica, 26-08-2008) Mutabaruka was born Allan Hope in 1952 in Jamaica and after school began to work for the Jamaica Telephone Company. He had been writing poems since he was a schoolboy and after sending poems to magazines like Swing,...
by Eric Doumerc | 7, Sep 2022
An interview with Mervyn Morris (25 August 2010, Kingston). Interviewer: I’ll begin by asking you a very simple question. You’ve worked for many years as an academic on performance poetry and orality. One of your first essays that got you noticed...
by Eric Doumerc | 7, Sep 2022
An interview with Geoffrey Philp (21 July 2012) Interviewer : You were born in Jamaica and emigrated to Miami in 1979. So, basically, what was it like to grow up in Jamaica during that important post-independence period ? Geoffrey Philp : Yeah, coming of age during...
