Thicker than water : new writing from the Caribbean / editied by Funso Aiyejina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Indo-Caribbean Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--21st century.

Caribbean literature.

Caribbean fiction (English).

Literature.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

223 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Trinidad and Tobago : Peekash Press, 2018.

Summary:

Thicker Than Water celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is a multi-genre anthology of writing by writers shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Prize for Caribbean Writers, which was awarded between 2013 and 2015. Contestants had to be Caribbean by birth or citizenship, and had to be living and working in the region. The aim of the prize was to discover and nuture new talent.

Contents:

Three poems (The revivalist pockets Lilys' ring ; The suicide sobers Lily's son ; The lodger breaks Lily's rules) / Nicholette Bethel

Sophia's new shoes / Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming

Four poems (The hunter remembers the doe ; The hunter's wife remembers the fawn ; The hunter's only daughter hears the fawn ; Howler) / Danielle Boodoo-Forunté

Unloved / Ira Mathur

Five poems (Little lion ; Wardian case ; Burn ; Antilia ; Teh histor (or geography) of bays / Richard Georges

Lettuce / Sharon Millar

Four poems (When you eat a mango ; Holding ; Submissive ; Temptation, persuasion, seduction) / Peta-Gaye V. Williams

Dear departed / Hazel Simmons-McDonald

Three poems (Ancestry ; Licks like rain ; Graveyard) / Zahra Gordon

Man crush : take five / Philip Nanton

Four poems (After the vote ; Getting out of poetry way ; Language of the garden ; Advice from the boa) Lynn Sweeting

Goal / Barbara Jenkins

Four poems (Horse-head ; A beautiful corpse ; Rundown ; The sea will claim us all) / Moncia Minott

G&Ts and Rita Bloody Marley / Lisa Allen-Agostini

On the edges of history / Judy Raymond

Two poems (Returning from exile ; Construction of structure) / Xavier Navarro Aquino

The island of my life / Diana McCaulay

The wayward son / Vashti Bowlah

Three poems (The young Indian witch learns how to pray ; The nameless girl and the natures of blood ; My father and his father before him) / Shivanee Ramlochan.

Notes:

Compilation of "new writing by finalists for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, a groundbreaking award administered by the Bocas Lit Fest".

ISBN:

9789769610613

9769610615

OCLC:

1057121092