In his New and Collected Poems (Peepal Tree Press 2018), we travel from Ian McDonald, the dad watching his new-born son sleep to Ian McDonald, the grandpa, watching his granddaughter sleep; from a young man marvelling at the mystery, wander, and...
Lisa McLean’s Love Has Wrinkles – her first published children’s book – is exactly what Fae Ellington says in her blurb: lovely. As Ellington writes in her endorsement of the book, it “addresses the issue of the importance of the extended family…...
The narrative poem Prophets by Kwame Dawes captures the essence of Jamaican life, depicting the influences of the Bible, reggae and dancehall on the Jamaican psyche through the dual depiction of Clarice and Thalbot – both considered prophets by...
A Jamaican male-perspective answer to Emily Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Dwight Thompson’s first novel, Death Register, is a Bildung Romans (coming of age) story set in modern-day St James, Jamaica. The writing is good, but at the same time, you know there...
