Stephen Narain interviews Andre Bagoo in the LA Review of Books. Andre speaks of his latest collection of stories, The Dreaming:
Amanda Smyth's Fortune has been selected as one of the 13 books to make the Walter Scott Prize longlist. The judges have described the book as, 'A thrilling Shakespearean tragedy of a story, about love, lust, ambition, destiny, and human frailty'.
On her podcast Here We Read for Fun, Tricia McCarter has interviewed Diana McCaulay about Daylight Come.
Find out more at the Here We Read for Fun podcast at Anchor FM.
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
for promis’d joy!
— Robert Burns
John Robert Lee joined Delia Dolor at the podcast Metaphorically Speaking to discusses his poem 'Lusca', dedicated to Nobel Laureate Sir Derek Walcott, and how the eponymous character is used as a metaphor for the land of their birth, Saint Lucia.
Poet Laureate of Barbados Esther Phillips recently spoke to Channel 4 News about Barbados becoming a republic and the Drax Hall estate. You can watch the film on YouTube below.
Esther Phillips speaks eloquently about Barbados' history, independence and future with The World's Marco Werman:
Harriett Gilbert talks to the multi-award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey about her enchanting novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, which won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year. Roffey spins the mesmerising tale of a cursed mermaid and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her.
Diana McCaulay was interviewed for The Environment, the magazine for the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. She talks about climate justice and her latest novel, Daylight Come:
In The Beacon, Cyril Dabydeen writes about the influence of V.S. Naipaul:
