William's poems are not only fine works in their own right, but as part of the circle which included Martin Carter, Wilson Harris, Jan Carew and Ivan van Sertima - an exciting and vital phase of Caribbean literary history.

Years of Fighting Exile: Collected Poems 1955-1985

Literature & Fiction

WILLIAMS, Milton Vishnu

History & Criticism

Peepal Tree Press

Enhancing his international reputation, this collection matches a complexity of tone and attitude to the experience of twin Caribbean and Canadian horizons.

Islands lovelier than a vision

Thief With Leaf

Brian Chan

Contemporary

The elect

Sharlow Mohammed

Dali's Twisted Hands

Arts & Photography

Sen, Sudeep

Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultural complexity, this novel explores the role of spirituality in Caribbean life and culture. Told through multiple voices in a nonlinear fashion, the narrative unfolds through the perspectives of a Haitian-Syrian merchant, Ruth, who recounts her young adulthood and final days as she intuits her imminent death; Catherine, a professional pianist living in Paris who travels home to Haiti upon hearing of her Aunt Ruth’s murder; Rose, Catherine’s mother, an empath, who is believed to have committed suicide in Canadian exile in reaction to the worst years of the Duvalier regime; Romulus, a once famous Konpa singer and an addict, who, released by rebels from a Port-au-Prince jail searches for his redemption; and Elsie, an Irish, working-class seer who emigrates to Haiti in 1847 in search of a new mystic who will guide them all. Traversing the terrains of Port-au-Prince middle-class life, working-class French Canada, expatriate Paris, the peat bogs of famine stricken Ireland, and tracing lives that cross boundaries of time and place, this is a deeply absorbing portrayal of a fragmented community whose deepest connections lie in a shared sense of spirituality.

The Loneliness of Angels

Chancy, Myriam

Literary

Christian Campbell takes us to dusk, what the French call l’heure entre chien et loup, the hour between dog and wolf, to explore ambiguity and intersection, danger and desire, loss and possibility. These poems of wild imagination shift shape and shift generation, remapping Caribbean, British and African American geographies: Oxford becomes Oxfraud; Shabba Ranks duets with Césaire; Sidney Poitier is reconsidered in an exam question; market women hawk poetry beside knock-off Gucci bags; elegies for ancestors are also for land and sea. Here is dancing at the crossroads between reverence and irreverence. Dusk is memory, dusk is dream, dusk is a way to re-imagine the past. Running the Dusk won the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the UK. It was also named a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize by Sonia Sanchez.

Running the Dusk

Campbell, Christian

Poetry

Glory Dead

History

ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL

Americas

Goodbye Bay

Jennifer Rahim

Sturge Town

Kwame Dawes

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