Poems by Jamaican poet/author Tanya Shirley are now available online at poetryarchive.org. You may purchase a CD of her reading many of her work, and these CDs can be shipped internationally right to your doorstep. Tanya Shirley is a startlingly bold writer with a particular gift for highlighting the telling detail in her vivid and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 24, 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...Sunday, July 4, 2010
In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Mel Cooke gives a useful review of Joan Andrea Hutchinson & Tanya Shirley’s recent poetry reading and book signing event. “Saturday afternoon’s (June 26) reading at Kingston Bookshop, Knutsford Boulevard, New Kingston, was a two-woman affair with Tanya Shirley saying, after she ended that reading with Joan Andrea Hutchinson, she knew [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Joan Andrea Hutchinson and Tanya Shirley, both independent female authors and poets, are collaborating to present a joint poetry reading and book signing event, scheduled for Saturday, June 26, at Bookland in New Kingston (53 Knutsford Boulevard). Come out and hear new poetry from both ladies, and get personalised copies of their most recent efforts, [...]
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