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Review Of Wayne Lawrence’s Book – The Art of Jamaica
Today’s Sunday Gleaner carries a review of Wayne Lawrence’s book, The Art of Jamaica. Wayne Lawrence, artist and writer, has prepared a book that looks at Jamaican artists from their own perspective and examines the motivation and inspiration for their creations. While most of the previous publications like this one have focused on Jamaican creators [...]
Continue reading...Call for entries: Commonwealth Book Prize & Commonwealth Short Story Prize
15. November 2011
The Commonwealth Foundation has made the call for entries for the new Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The prizes are part of a new initiative, Commonwealth Writers, an online hub to inspire, inform and create a community of writers from all over the world. Together with the prizes, Commonwealth Writers unearths, develops [...]
Continue reading...The Undertaker’s Daughter: The Colourful Life of a Theatre Director
15. October 2011
This book has been out for a while, but is definitely worth a revisit. It’s Yvonne Brewster’s family memoir. Jamaican-born Brewster founded two theatre companies – ‘The Barn’ in Jamaica and ‘Talawa’ in England. Over the years, she has become a leading figure in Britain’s black theatre movement, directing plays by writers from Derek Walcott [...]
Continue reading...Tastes Like Home: My Caribbean Cookbook – by Cynthia Nelson
17. September 2011
This Ian Randle-published cookbook by Cynthia Nelson, who grew up in Guyana cooking with her mother and aunt, does not disappoint. (Nelson is also the food stylist and photographer. And let’s put it out there: the picture on the dedication page is, there’s no other word, wicked!) It’s 335 pages of 100 scrumptious recipes and [...]
Continue reading...Textbook Prices In Jamaica Up 5%
24. August 2011
According to a report in today’s Jamaica Observer newspaper, textbook prices in Jamaica are up 5% this year (compared to last year). THE prices of primary and secondary school textbooks edged up by an average five per cent over last year in the annual survey released by the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) on Monday. The [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Store Feature
14. August 2011
Today’s Sunday Observer newspaper carries a feature on the popular Bookophilia store, located on Hope Road in St. Andrew: It’s a business born of love — a love of books. Now, three years later, the Kingston-based Bookophilia is the place where readers, young and old, get the chance to indulge themselves, unravelling the plot of [...]
Continue reading...Help Save The TrenchTown Reading Centre
10. August 2011
A Letter From Rachael McDonald (A Friend of TrenchTown Reading Centre) Dear Friends: Earlier this year I was introduced to the TrenchTown Reading Centre, located on Lower First Street in TrenchTown. It is literally an oasis and functions as a community library, reading room and education centre. It remains, since it’s inception non-profit and there [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Horace Levy’s Killing Street & Community Revival
6. August 2011
Title: Killing Street and community Revival Author: Horace Levy Published by: The Centre for Public Safety and Justice the University of the West Indies With a foreword by Professor Barry Chevannes Reviewed By: Fr Gerard McLaughlin, SJ (Originally featured in the Jamaica Observer newspaper) This University of the West Indies- sponsored manuscript that highlights’ the [...]
Continue reading...Feature On Poet/Writer Tanya Shirley
24. July 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries two items on Jamaican Poet/Writer, Tanya Shirley: 1) Tanya Shirley – a constantly maturing poet – In June 2009, at the launch of Tanya Shirley’s debut poetry collection, She Who Sleeps With Bones, (Peepal Tree Press) at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, Dr Michael Bucknor said it [...]
Continue reading...Review of The Hills of Hebron
20. July 2011
Title: The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter. Kingston; Ian Randle Publishers, 2010. 340 pages. Reviewed by: Mary Hanna (originally featured in the Jamaica Observer newspaper) Originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1962, this brilliant novel is one of the foundational texts in the Caribbean literary tradition. Wynter’s contribution to the burgeoning culture pool is [...]
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