Don’t ask me to remember when I first met John Robert Lee because you’ll send me so deep into the past that I might not come back sane. My mind will start to drift towards a migraine that neither Advil or Aspirin could placate. The answer, when I eventually remember, will come in a dream, the only way it could.
Dorothea Smartt, Kei Miller and Shivanee Ramlochan feature on Audible's Pride List of Queer Storytelling, organised in conjunction with Out on Page. Peepal Tree poet Adam Lowe was also invited to recommend two items to add to the list.
The BFI are now showcasing a 1961 film by legendary Caribbean writers Sylvia Wynter and her then-husband, Jan Carew. The film is currently free to watch on the BFI website.
Adam Lowe's debut collection Patterflash was picked as The Poetry Book Society's Book of the Week.
The book also hit #6, #7 and #13 in the Gay Drama, Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Critical Theory categories on Amazon UK.
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:
