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“Open and live with silence”
Christian Campbell The shortlists for the 2010 Forward Prizes for Poetry were announced today. The UK Guardian suggests that An expected clash between Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott on...
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• Revival of Paul Simon/Derek Walcott’s Capeman opens in NYC in August: http://bit.ly/bxdLLX • Trinidadian Marlon Griffith wins 2010 Commonwealth Connections international arts residency:...
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Cover stories
Dustjacket of the first edition of Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun, from the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Literature, University of Illinois at Chicago library Does the physical format of a...
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R.I.P. Sesenne Descartes, 1914–2010
Sesenne Descartes. Photograph courtesy the St Lucia Folk Research Centre My country heart, I am not home till Sesenne sings, a voice with woodsmoke and ground-doves in it, that cracks like clay on a...
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“I’ve wasted a bit of myself”
V.S. Naipaul in his younger days NAIPAUL I’m unusual in that I have had a long career. Most people from limited backgrounds write one book. I’m a prose writer. A prose book contains many thousands of...
View Article“Nouns wet and fragrant and salty”
Last Friday, 3 December, Derek Walcott gave the annual Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library, on “Hemingway and the Caribbean”. The library has been kind enough to post video...
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“Blessing instead of complaining”
Derek Walcott He has won almost every other poetry award he’s eligible for, and this evening in London it was announced that Derek Walcott has won the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize for his latest book, White...
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Making the list
Photograph by Horia Varlan, posted at Flickr under a Creative Commons license It’s shortlist time — for at least a couple of literary awards. Yesterday the Warwick Prize for Writing announced its 2011...
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2011 OCM Bocas Prize longlist
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — which will be awarded for the first time this year — has announced its 2011 longlist of ten books, in three genre categories: Poetry = Elegguas, by Kamau...
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Footnotes: Black Sand, by Edward Baugh
“Footnotes” is a series of occasional blog posts giving further information about books reviewed in the CRB The November 2013 CRB includes a review by Ishion Hutchinson of Edward Baugh’s Black Sand:...
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