NEW TITLES

Below are the most recent titles from Peepal Tree, published since March 2008. For more information use the Subscription form to sign up for detailed title and author information and extracts from books.

 


Elemental: New and Selected Poems

John Robert Lee
Elemental: New and Selected Poems

ISBN: 9781845230623, Price: £8.99

This collection gathers 30 years of published and unpublished work from nine collections of verse, many of them modest chapbooks published in his native Saint Lucia, West Indies.

 


After-Image

Dennis Scott
After-Image

ISBN: 9781845230241, Price: £7.99

These are the marvellous poems of Denis Scott's last years, poems vibrant with life and curiosity about this new journey, poems full of regret about what will be missed , but peace in the pleasures of travelling light.


New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers

Daryl Cumber Dance
New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers

ISBN: 9781900715041, Price: £14.99

To these highly readable, probing and well-informed interviews with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings a deep knowledge of Caribbean writing and the openly avowed insights of an African-American woman .


Indian Indenture In British Malaya: Policy and practice in the Straits Settlements

David Chanderbali
Indian Indenture In British Malaya: Policy and practice in the Straits Settlements

ISBN: 9781845230364, Price: £14.99

David Chanderbali’s book is a valuable addition to the small but growing literature concerning 19th century Indian indentured migration to work as labourers in plantation economies in the tropical world.


The Gift of Screws

Brian Chan
The Gift of Screws

ISBN: 9781845230050, Price: £7.99

The personal and political experiences and passions of a third-world immigrant are powerfully expressed in this collection of poems.

 


Children of the Morning: Selected Poems

Faustin Charles
Children of the Morning: Selected Poems

ISBN: 9781900715980, Price: £8.99

Since 1969, Faustin Charles has been a significant voice in Caribbean poetry, and this long overdue selection from his previous collections and a book’s worth of new poems offers readers a chance to enjoy the range and originality of his work.


Against the Grain: A 1950s Memoir

E.A. Markham
Against the Grain: A 1950s Memoir

ISBN: 9781845230302, Price: £10.99

When Markham arrived in the UK from Montserrat in 1956, he wanted to be a pop star; his family hoped he would be an academic. In fact he made his name in the rather less lucrative field of poetry. A wryly humourous take on Black life in Britain.


The Almond Leaf

Earl McKenzie
The Almond Leaf

ISBN: 9781845230128, Price: £7.99

In contemplating mortality, Earl McKenzie finds continuance affirmation and joy in love, family, music and art and, above all, in the nature of his beloved Jamaica.

 


Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry

Laurence A. Breiner
Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry

ISBN: 9781845230470, Price: £16.99

Laurnce Breiner's study not only provides the materials for an enhanced reading of Roach's poetry and a persuasive argument for its importance, but also shows Roach's life and work to have been at the centre of the cultural politics of Caribbean writing.


Leaving Traces

Velma Pollard
Leaving Traces

ISBN: 9781845230210, Price: £8.99

Ranging over the Jamaican and Caribbean past and the encroachments of a turbulent world, Velma Pollard’s poems return always to the quiet touchstones of love and friendship.

 


Limestone

Anthony Kellman
Limestone

ISBN: 9781845230036, Price: £9.99

Limestone is the epic poem of Barbados (porous limestone island), and a major achievement in the development of an indigenous Caribbean poetics.