Belmont Portfolio — for Earl Lovelace
ROBERT LEE
Prologue: Belmont window, Saturday
some girl you never spoke with
some girl who walked on the other side of your road
some girl you looked out for from your blue window
lived in a house like this
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Bottom
VLADIMIR LUCIEN
Yet so much about this conflict between the head and the pelvis, meeting at the navel, seems one dimensional — all of it focused at the front of the body. It doesn’t speak of the bottom, the butt, the bambam, the bamsee, the badonkadonk, the booty.
Blood mas
ADELE TODD
I am asking with this body of work to include B L O O D M A S as part of the Jouvert experience. I ask that all victims of abuse and violence be given this voice.
VOYEUR
PAULA DAVID
A woman grooms her lover tenderly. She examines her lover’s face, scratching at scars and stroking wrinkles while her lover’s head rests snugly on her lap. They are an unlikely pair.
Island Influences
ACQUILLE DUNKLEY
I must start off with a disclaimer. These images are not photographs. They were created digitally on a computer.
Bookmarked and PREE ink
Save the date.12 noon on Feb 24, 2021, we’re celebrating the publication of our first print edition Bookmarked, and inaugurating our print arm, PREE ink, with a webinar in collaboration with the Shuttleworth Foundation.
Now Boarding
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
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.
Saffy’s Song
SHARMA TAYLOR
I don’t tell CC mi going be a singjay, like Koffee. CC love to play ‘90s dancehall at home, she sey dem time music was “nice”. So, in between her gospel music, CC playing General Degree, Spragga Benz, Tiger, Terror Fabulous, Ghost, Baby Cham, Shabba Ranks, Sanchez and Pinchers.
Riddim of My Life
LAFLEUR COCKBURN
“Dancehall is ah building, yuh see me? De riddims ah de main frame, and de artists ah de fixtures, yuh see me? De producers come like architects, and den de selectah ah de salesman, yuh see me?”
CLR Dub
CHE LOVELACE
I made this painting of a J’Ouvert morning on the Carnival streets of Port of Spain; and placed CLR James in the middle of it among the revellers.
