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Dark Exposure: Roberta Stoddart’s The Bertha Room

Roberta Stoddart’s richly complex oil paintings showcased in The Bertha Room, prove that it is dark under the metaphoric flotsam of Wide Sargasso Sea, darker still under the shade of the palm tree’s symbolism, and perhaps darkest of all where racial, familial, patriarchal, and post-colonial trauma festers muted and unseen.

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Shells and shores: Wendy Nanan and Andre bagoo

WIth COVID 19 forcing the temporary closure of the museum, curator Andil Gosine called upon three poets to virtually open Nanan’s exhibtiion–the first and largest for a Caribbean woman at the AMA–on June 11, 2020. Among them was Andre Bagoo, whose engagement with the artist includes a suite of poems that invoke and weigh the site of Nanan’s shell-collecting, along Trinidad’s vulnerable Atlantic coast.

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Beach as Plot?

In this article artist Annalee Davis draws a thread between the one-dimensional notion of tourism as the panacea for small island economies (with a particular focus on Barbados), and the potential role of contemporary visual art and artists in offering other lenses through which we can see ourselves and consider our contexts. COVID-19 will infect this text. How can it not?

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Middle Ground, HKW
PREE GOES TO BERLIN!The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) or HKW in Berlin has paid PREE the signal honour of inviting us to inaugurate its Middle Ground literary festival series. Seven Caribbean writers (Marlon James, Josefina Baez, Ingrid Persaud, Kei Miller, Ada Patterson, Vladimir Lucien and Lafleur Belle) along with Isis Semaj-Hall and Annie Paul of PREE will be on the ground in Berlin from August 25-27 with an exciting series of readings, discussions, performances and talks.

Middle Ground: PREE. Caribbean Writing
Interactions – Transactions – Reciprocities
Readings, Discussions, Workshops, Keynote lectures, Performances, Concerts, Party
25.–27.8.2023

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FICTION

Passover
DWIGHT THOMPSON

Looking for Lagahoos
LYNDON NICHOLAS

The Vagrant, the Ring and the Pothound
KIRK BUDHOORAM

Don’t Go Under the Coconut Tree
LUKE ELLIOTT

Back Bush
KAMSI ARCHIPLEY

Peter 3:15
RACHELLE J. GRAY

Preludes
ANDRE BAGOO

NON-FICTION

Rhythmless & Sweaty in Kingston  
DANA FLETCHER

POETRY

Basin Tanka, From Memory
AMARA AMARYAH

Two Poems
ANIKA CHRISTOPHER

Rest in Power
GEOFFREY PHILP

Three poems
JUSTIN HAYNES

Two Poems
KEVIN REIGH

No Gods
NIGEL ASSAM

Ablution
KAY-ANN HENRY

PREE SHORTIES

Urban Portal: From dem time to NOW
GICELLE MAGLOIRE

Muffler burn
KAY-ANN HENRY

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