by Eric Doumerc | 7, Apr 2022
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 include Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac as well...
by Eric Doumerc | 22, Nov 2021
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, together with Chris Bailey and Tomlin Ellis in the...
by Eric Doumerc | 16, Sep 2021
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 | 19, May 2021
McFarlane, Roy. The Healing Next Time. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2018. 79 pages. ISBN: 9781911027454 Roy McFarlane is a British poet of Jamaican parentage who was born in Birmingham and has lived most of his life in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands. In 2009 he was...
by Eric Doumerc | 19, May 2021
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....
