Editorial Archives

Editorial: PREE 8

by ap | Jan 16, 2022 | Annie Paul, Editorial, Highlights 8, PREE 8 | 1 |

And just like that the twenty-first century has turned twenty-two. Its 21st year had been ruinous...

Now Boarding

by ap | Dec 27, 2020 | Editorial, Highlights 6, Isis Semaj-Hall, PREE 6 | 0 |

ISIS SEMAJ-HALL / RIDDIM WRITER

Dub is what happens when time collapses. But it is not the collapse of all time, just the collapse of their time. Dub is the collapse of their time and the rise of fi wi time. Do you follow me? Or do you prefer to see where I’m going?

Rub-a-dub-dub: A note

by ap | Dec 27, 2020 | Annie Paul, Editorial, Highlights 6 | 0 |

ANNIE PAUL

“Ghosts in the mix, duppies in the machine”–according to Chude-Sokei dub taught the world how to listen, how to ‘read’ sound.

Editorial: Race and Racism in the Caribbean: “So many knees on so many necks”

by ap | Jul 5, 2020 | Annie Paul, Editorial, PREE Views 1 | 4 |

The image anchoring this text is a photo of a John Crow Blow Nose or Basket Stinkhorn Fungus taken by the ceramicist David Pinto. Its hideous beauty perfectly symbolizes the raw and smelly wound of systematic racial and class discrimination still haunting the Caribbean. It’s an unpleasant thing to face down but face it we must.

Letter from the Editor

by ap | Jul 10, 2019 | Editorial, Editorial 3, Highlights 3, Issue Three: #TheCaribbeanisnotaRealPlace | 0 |

In Reading India Now, a recent book examining new trends in Indian writing, Ulka Anjaria talks of...

Prefiguring the 21st C in Caribbean writing

by ap | Nov 14, 2018 | Editorial, Editorial 2, Issue Two: Pressure | 0 |

PREE was born out of the desire to be part of shaping the new, of providing an experimental,...

Crossroads Issue 1: Letter from the Editor

by ap | Apr 19, 2018 | Annie Paul, Editorial, Issue One: Crossroads | 8 |

ANNIE PAUL As the note on our theme says, the Caribbean has always existed at a crossroads of one kind or another, and nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the Caribbean remains at a crossroads. The artist...