Links for Caribbean poetry






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.
 

Hands On
57 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
 
 

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