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In these truthful, strange, funny, and tragic short stories set in Barbados and the United States, a path is woven through the joys and suffering of women's lives--from breast cancer, madness, and abortion to love, magic, and a deep connectedness between women--leading always to remarkable, unexpected places. These believable characters' voices rage, weep, and laugh through stories that are sometimes in the form of letters, conversations, whispered secrets, or raw cries for help. Themes of race, gender, and sexual orientation are key to these stories, as is the interplay between modernity and the African traditions of the Caribbean. Also explored are the connections between spirituality and the supernatural and between sanity and madness.

Set in multiracial London, this new novel from Peepal Tree's most popular writer is a comedy about identity, community, growing old (and people and dogs). Beneath the laughter lurks a bittersweet sense of human fragility and impermanence.

The third in a quartet of poem-dialogues between Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, begun in 2015 with the critically acclaimed 'Speak From Here to There' (2016), and followed by 'A New Beginning' (2018), Tangling With The Epic explores commonalities and difference, of the power of poetry and creativity

Seni Seneviratne delves into her father's experience of WW2, the only non-white signalman in a platoon stationed in North Africa. Sparked by a collection of photos, the poems explore the mix of male camaraderie and casual racism of that experience, but also the deep affection hinted at in the way the photographer has framed "Snowball" in his lens.

Gordon RohlehrâEUR(TM)s critical work is outstanding in the balance it achieves between its particularity and its breadth âEUR" from the detailed unpacking of a poemâEUR(TM)s inner workings, to locating Caribbean writing in the sweep of political and cultural history âEUR" and the equal respect he pays to literary and to popular cultural forms. His âEURœArticulating a Caribbean AestheticâEUR? remains a stunningly pertinent and concise account of the historical formation of the cultural shifts that framed Caribbean writing as a distinctive body of work. Indeed, along with Kamau Brathwaite, Sylvia Wynter and Kenneth Ramchand, no critic has done more to establish the subject of Caribbean writing and its distinctive aesthetics. These essays, written between 1969 to 1986, first published in radical campaigning newspapers such as Tapia and Moko, and first collected in 1992, were the work of a young academic who was both changing the university curriculum, and deeply engaged with the less privileged world outside the campus. Rohlehr catches Caribbean writing at the point when it leaves behind its nationalist hopes and begins to challenge the complex realities of independence. Few critics have written as clearly about how deeply the colonial has remained embedded in the postcolonial. What shines in RohlehrâEUR(TM)s work is not merely its depth, acuity and humanity, but its courage. He writes when his subject is still emergent, without waiting for the credibility of metropolitan endorsements as a guide to the canon. âEURœMy Strangled CityâEUR?, a record of how TrinidadâEUR(TM)s poets responded to the upsurge of revolutionary hopes, radical shams, repressions and disappointed dreams of 1964-1975 is an indispensable account of those times and the diversity of literary response that continues to speak to the present. And if in these essays Trinidad is RohlehrâEUR(TM)s primary focus, his perspective is genuinely regional. His native Guyana is always present in his thoughts and several essays show his deep interest in the cultural productions of a âEURœdreadâEUR? Jamaica, and in making insightful comparisons between, for instance, reggae and calypso.

Contemporary poetry from Black British and British Asian writers.

An anthology of the very best contemporary Caribbean short stories, edited by Jeremy Poynting and Jacob Ross.

Set in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years, Stranger at the Gate is a classic Caribbean novel with the narrative drive of Hemingway, the sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite.

A novel written in the form of a screenplay, Cut Guavas is a rigorous fictional exploration of fanfiction, politics and Planet of the Apes.

Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. Like a Trinidadian Cheers, a rich cast of characters come together in this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet first novel.

Combining life-writing with poetic prose, Anthony Joseph gets to the heart of the man behind the music and the myth, reaching behind the sobriquet to present a holistic portrait of the calypso icon Lord Kitchener.

With a mature and accomplished voice, this novel explores the growth in presence of radical Islam within the Caribbean. Under the shadow of corporate imperialism, complete with disenfranchised islanders, corrupt government ministers, and scheming U.S.-oil companies, Beatrice Salandy finds love with Adbul, a man who is second in command in a rising radical Muslim movement. With welfare schemes, grass-roots campaigning, and an air of incorruptibility, the movement becomes wildly popular with the island's poorest classes. But as events unfold, Beatrice begins to question Adbul's sincerity and honesty, and he becomes a fascinatingly unreliable voice in this moving and timely novel.

A unique combination of passion and compassion, sensitivity and sensuality, this collection of poetry infuses themes from the author's South Asian heritage with the Shetland Islands--a marginalized slice of Britain. With a dramatic and distinctively personal voice, these poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from a love for language and the anguish of war to Queen Victoria and the history of the waltz.

Each piece in this dynamic poetic biography uses the voices of iconic figures past and present in a bold exploration of such hot topics as gender, race, and spirituality. The mode of presentation continually shifts--from dramatic monologue or prose poem, to prophetic rant--to provide fresh, moving viewpoints on subjects as various as the senility of a beloved grandmother and Michael Jackson's racial transformations.

What brings Charlo Pardie--an almost elderly peasant farmer--to leave his wife after a life together? Will he return? Set on a small Caribbean island, this mystery creates a vivid portrait of a rural community subject to the hostilities of nature and the tempests of their own relationships. Drawing heavily on the Anglo/French Creole cultures of the Caribbean, this work captures place and creates a fascinating group of characters struggling with the choices of adult life.

Set in Trinidad and Canada in the 1950s, this moving and tender love story evokes a memorable portrayal of a brave young woman's struggle between the traditional, collective Hindu society of her parents and her generation's world of individual destiny and responsibility. The village pundit warns Sastra's mother that her daughter's birth signs foretell two possible karmas: one of prosperous security if she keeps to the well-tried path of obedience to tradition, the other of mixed joy and misery if she should attempt to "fly" and follow her own desires. As Sastra finds herself faced with choosing between these two destinies, the novel explores the interaction between accidents and human responsibility, convention and change, and the problematic workings of fate.

This book brings back to life in rich detail the Afro-Guyanese village community of the author's childhood, where there were old people who had been slaves as children and Africa was not forgotten. It was a time when children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared, and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity that are as unforgettable for the reader as they were for the child.