Poet Adam Lowe was recently invited to speak to BBC Radio 4's programme The Digital Human. Asked about how language use is changing online to avoid filters and please advertisers, Adam speaks about how minority groups tend to suffer the most from such policing. But he also speaks about how language has always been able to mask and reveal.
Listen to the show, or download it, now on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Marcia Douglas has been named as one of 10 writers to win one of this year's $50,000 Whiting Awards. Marcia Douglas's latest novel is The Marvellous Equations of the Dread.
T&T Newsday has written about the tributes made to Jennifer Rahim. The article includes a number of moving quotes from Jennifer's friends, students and colleagues.
For Women's History Month, Jacqueline Bishop interviewed Barbara Jenkins for last weekend's Sunday Observer Bookends column. The article, titled "Men, Often In Absentia, are Still Ever-present in Barbara Jenkins’ Work Because of Their Influence on Women’s Lives", is full of interesting titbits on Barbara's writing and her musings on life.
As part of World Book Day, four poets shared their "shelfies" (that is, a snapshot of the books currently ornamenting their shelves) with The Poetry Society.
Among the four poets was Peepal Tree writer Andre Bagoo. Andre's shelfie picks are:
Recently, author Angela Barry spoke with Page Turners Plus about her writing process and the layered nature of her latest novel, The Drowned Forest. You can watch Angela talking about the book and the history of Bermuda here:
In the Bahamas, Helen Klonaris is partnering with Poinciana Paper Press to run a series of writing workshops targeted at beginners and focusing on the fantastic. In a recent article, Eyewitness News describes the course and Klonaris' work in more detail.
Postoned: On Wednesday 29 March 2023, at 5pm, the Department of Literatures in English will host the launch of Geoffrey Philp's sixth collection of poems, Archipelagos. We do not know when this will be rescheduled.
Author photo by Naomi Woddis
Anthony Joseph recently won the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry collection Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury). In celebration, T&T Newsday has published a profile of his work, mentioning his previous collections with Peeoal Tree and the wider impact of Trinbagonian writing in the Anglosphere.
