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Thicker than water : new writing from the Caribbean
- Title
- Thicker than water : new writing from the Caribbean / editied by Funso Aiyejina.
- Publication
- Trinidad and Tobago : Peekash Press, 2018.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Aiyejina, Funso
- Description
- 223 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Caribbean fiction (English) – 21st century.
- Caribbean poetry (English) – 21st century.
- Caribbean literature (English) – 21st century.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Compilation of "new writing by finalists for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, a groundbreaking award administered by the Bocas Lit Fest".
- 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.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 19-21443
- ISBN
- 9789769610613
- 9769610615
- LCCN
- 2018488952
- OCLC
- 1057121092
- Title
- Thicker than water : new writing from the Caribbean / editied by Funso Aiyejina.
- Publisher
- Trinidad and Tobago : Peekash Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Aiyejina, Funso, editor.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 19-21443