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CURRENT ISSUE

Issue No. 17 - August 2008

Table of Contents

Credits
- by Various Contributors
About our contributors
- by CRB
Marginalia
News about Caribbean books, writers, and art
- by CRB
Reading List
Yours etc
- by CRB
Poems
“Poem”, by Anu Lakhan; “Blues for Cousin Alvin” and “Bosch’s Vision”, by Anthony Joseph
- by Various Contributors
Hail to the Chief
Jeremy Taylor on Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, by Colin Grant
- by Jeremy Taylor
Clocking Cadence
Vahni Capildeo on Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry, by Laurence A. Breiner
- by Vahni Capildeo
What Lies Within
Lisa Allen-Agostini on Shell, by Olive Senior
- by Lisa Allen-Agostini
In Brief & Also Noted
A. White on Puerto Rican Poetry: A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times, ed. Roberto Márquez; Nicholas Laughlin on Cuba: Art and History from 1868 to Today, ed. Nathalie Bondil; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Bellas Gate Boy, by Trevor Rhone; Dylan Kerrigan on Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad, by Kevin K. Birth
- by Various Contributors
High Breed
Tanya Shirley on Leaving Traces, by Velma Pollard
- by Tanya Shirley
Notebook
Judy Raymond on the art of make-up and Jean Rhys; Kei Miller on the texture of fiction in Caribbean life; Melissa Richards meets Patrick French, biographer of V.S. Naipaul
- by Various Contributors
Rock of Ages
John Gilmore on Limestone, by Anthony Kellman
- by John Gilmore
Film Notebook
Jonathan Ali on The Insatiable Season, dir. Mariel Brown; Emilie Upczak on Eat, For This Is My Body, dir. Michelange Quay; Ingrid Persaud on On the Map, dir. Annalee Davis
- by Various Contributors
Other Versions
Hyacinth Simpson on Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature, by Leah Reade Rosenberg
- by Hyacinth Simpson
Full Frontal
Christopher Cozier on Gerard Gaskin’s Trinidad Artists series
- by Christopher Cozier
I Know the Language is True
Lorna Goodison talks to Nicholas Laughlin about writing her family memoir From Harvey River
- by Nicholas Laughlin
In Montego Bay
Anthony C. Winkler on his Jamaican childhood
- by Anthony Winkler
Letter
Carole Boyce Davies responds to a review of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
- by Carol Boyce Davies



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