On 23 November 2022, Geoffrey Philp will be granted the Silver Musgrave Medal by the Council of the Institute of Jamaica for outstanding merit in the field of literature. The Musgrave Medal is an annual award in recognition of achievement in art, science, and literature. Originally conceived in 1889, the award was named in memory of Sir Anthony Musgrave, the founder of the Institute and the former Governor of Jamaica who had died the previous year.
John Robert Lee's poem 'Endings' appears on page 215 on this month's issue of Blue Mountain Review. You can read the magazine for free online.
John Kinsella has blogged about recent goings on at his website, Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist. John includes a poem, and his brief musings on colonialism, monarchism and enforced grief:
We are very excited to share that Shara McCallum's No Ruined Stone is a nominee for a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. The winner will be announced in October, and we are crossing our fingers for Shara!
A new series of photos by Johny Pitts shines a light on communities and subcultures that have all too often been overlooked. Huck Magazine takes a closer look:
In July, John Robert Lee curated Acalabash Caribbean Poetry Portfolio-10. The portfolio includes poems and artwork from across the Caribbean.
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T&T Newsday has a feature on poet and artist John Lyons:
“With painting, line, shape, colour, texture and a surface plane are fundamental. So painting is about putting these elements together, into syntactical connection that creates a harmony that can speak to people on a level that is very intuitive…There is so much that I feel that I often find difficult to put in words. When I'm painting, I am in a different place.”
T&T Guardian reported briefly on Ira Mathur's book launch.
In Angela Barry’s imminently to be published novel, The Drowned Forest (out on the 23rd June), a hurricane turns the lives of all the main characters upside down and divides the novel into a before and an after. Each of the characters is affected in different ways, and Angela Barry’s vivid writing makes us share their respective terrors.
Shara McCallum recently joined hosts Erin Redfern and Farnaz Fatemi at The Hive Poetry Collective radio show. In season 4, episode 15, Shara McCallum reads from and discusses her book No Ruined Stone, a finalist for the 2022 Rilke Prize. The show explores this riveting alternate history that spans Scotland and Jamaica, colonialism and self-determination, the literary tradition and the individual poet.
