WIth COVID 19 forcing the temporary closure of the museum, curator Andil Gosine called upon three poets to virtually open Nanan’s exhibtiion–the first and largest for a Caribbean woman at the AMA–on June 11, 2023. Among them was Andre Bagoo, whose engagement with the artist includes a suite of poems that invoke and weigh the site of Nanan’s shell-collecting, along Trinidad’s vulnerable Atlantic coast. … Continue reading →
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Mesmerizing video of a black body in seeming freefall … Continue reading →
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I used the sea as a backdrop in my exploration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in my M-E-T-A series.… Continue reading →
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Jamaque Paradis features PREE Writing Studio
An article on the Prince Claus Fund in luxury magazine Jamaque Paradis features PREE’s writing studio. They got one detail wrong, the studio was/is to be held just before (now after) Calabash Literary Festival. Other than that we’re very pleased to be featured in an article on a really unique and innovative agency–the Prince Claus […]
An Interview with Ingrid Persaud on Love after Love
I write in English that requires no translation for the forty-four million people living in the Caribbean. This is the real English of a real place. Why I must translate into the English of a very particular minority who carry on like them own the language? Nah.
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Ecocide Leniqueca Welcome Amanda Choo Quan 匿名伋理ip
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All That Would Be Lise Ragbir
Crocodile Tears Roland Watson Grant
When We Die Sara Bastian
Daylight Come Diana McCaulay
NON-FICTION
Bullshit, Sweet-talk, and Hindu Nationalism Kris Singh
El Dorado, City of Black Gold Aliyah Khan
Jewellery for Re-membering in the Afterlife of Slavery: A View From the Disappearing Beach Maziki Thame
Reclamation by Water and Resurrection Morning Ide Amari Thompson
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Wild Thing Elizabeth Jaikaran
Morvant Landing and Swam Beauty Kwasi Shade
Amnesia Essah Cozett
ART-ICLES
Beach as Plot?
Annalee Davis
RE-VISIT
On Hidden Scars and the Passive Voice
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
When the Apocalypse is Now: Climate Crisis, Small Island Disasters and Migration in the Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian
Angelique V. Nixon
BRAWTA
Shells and shores: Wendy Nanan and Andre Bagoo
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Bodies of water: recent work by Andrae Green
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PREE 5: ECOCIDE
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SARA BASTIAN
Homecoming is not meant to outlive the holidays. For a homecoming to be respectable, it must cease. We must leave again to seek out something better, a place where the waves will not gulp down buildings. A place where the sea minds its manners and knows not to trespass. … Continue reading →
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LISE RAGBIR
Long before the turtles stopped burying their eggs in the sand of narrowing beaches, and fishermen stopped dragging nets into the sea, and tourists stopped taking selfies at plantation houses…… Continue reading →
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ROLAND WATSON-GRANT
Well look, social media more vicious than crocodile. It will hunt you. Sooner or later, once social media gets a taste of your business, it will bite into your privacy and never let go. After that, side-chick come outta hospital and start throw all kinda shade on Instagram. Crocodile Tears by Roland Watson-Grant. In which humans and a wily old croc wrestle each other for control of a once iconic beach in Jamaica
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You couldn’t light-proof a house no matter what you did. You couldn’t light-proof a world.… Continue reading →
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ADAM PATTERSON
I was weeding the back garden and thinking about you –
you,
stranger of the fields,
fugitive farmer,
runaway planter marooned from your dirt,… Continue reading →
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All my chirren is leave aftee sometime
an once dey does go
dey does don’t come back
sometime
all a mine is come back yinno?… Continue reading →
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ELIZABETH JAIKARAN
in my parents’ country
they discovered spiders big enough to
eat small dogs.… Continue reading →
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During World War II, the mining town of Shinkolobwe was dropped from maps of the Belgian Congo to protect the secrecy of its uranium ore. This rock would later supply most of the raw materials for the world’s first atomic bombs.
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