Reading and listening
to poetry online
The Caribbean Writers
Summer Institute at the University of Miami offers an outstanding Archival
Video Collection of poets reading their own work during workshops that
took place 1991-96.
You can read three
poems in Haitian creole, taken from Paul Laroque's bilingual anthology,
Open
Gate, which was published by Curbstone Press, 2001.
Visit the online Panic
Writing Project, set up in Brixton in 1998.
The Multicultural
Programme at the University of East Carolina offers a very useful list
of biographies
of Caribbean writers.
The British Council's
Index
of Contemporary Authors profiles some Caribbean poets living in Britain.
Poetry
from Barbados
Individual Poets' Websites
Immortelle,
a book of poems by Frank Watty (Dominica)
Magazines and Journals
Cariblife,
a variety magazine based in Barbados.
Caribbean
Beat, the surprisingly good British Airways inflight magazine, with
profiles of Franz Fanon, Frank Colleymore, Henry Swanzy...
CALABASH,
a journal of Caribbean arts and letters (New York University)
Wasafiri,
a London-based magazine on postcolonial writing.
Jouvert,
a journal of postcolonial studies published by North Carolina State University
ARIEL:
A Review of International English Literature, University of Calgary
Interventions,
a journal published by Routledge
Journal
of Commonwealth Literature (University of East Anglia)
Journal
of West Indian Literature (Jamaica)
My own selection of
14 Caribbean poets in Poetry
International 7/8
Individual Research
The Society
for Caribbean Studies based at the University of Warwick organizes
annual conferences.
Russ Filman's Caribbean
Literature pages.
Sara Herbert of Virginia
Commonwealth University offers web pages which set Caribbean poetry in
the
cultural
context of Barbados.
Related areas
Presentation of Stephanie
Black's new film "Life and Debt".
Radio
IMC offers a radio interview and its transcript of the director.
Listen to BBC Radio
4 programmes concerning Caribbean
English.
"Deconstructing
Nationalisms: Henry Swanzy, Caribbean Voices and the Development of
West Indian Literature", an article by
Glyne Griffith
Untold:
Channel 4's site for Black History Season, ongoing since 2000.
Cultural Context
Country-by-country
survey compiled by the Library of Congress.
Caribbean
documents from World History archives.
The
Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education.
Book reviews
Thomas W. Krise (ed.),
Caribbeana:
An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies 1657-1777, University
of Chicago press, 1999.
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Productions publish audio cassettes of British performance poets, including
Benjamin Zephaniah, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Merle Collins, Valerie Bloom,
Lemn Sissay and LKJ. Their excellent anthology of performance poetry is
called "Hearsay".
House
of Nehisi Publishers Foundation, based in New York and St. Martin.
Lexsys
Books
LKJ
Records produces work by LKJ and Jean 'Binta' Breeze.
Macmillan
Caribbean webpages.
Panmedia,
an interesting book and other media resource from Kingson, Jamaica
Peepul
Tree Press (in Leeds, Yorkshire)
University
of the West Indies, Mona bookshop
Suggestions
and queries are most welcome. Mail them to this
address
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