Category: Non Fiction

Rhythmless & Sweaty in Kingston

by ap | Feb 28, 2023 | DANA FLETCHER, Non Fiction, PREE 10 | 1 |

I think about my upbringing and how I was not raised in the part of Kingston where the legendary aspects of Jamaican culture were born and built. If we are being geographically specific, I am really not from Kingston at all. I can trace my upbringing to the 5-kilometre bubble in St. Andrew where language is policed, appearances are judged…

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Turn Up the Volume

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Leniqueca Welcome, Non Fiction | 0 |

Leniqueca Welcome “Turn Up the Volume” is an essay containing three digital photo collages, each...

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The Gait of the Elephant

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Essay, Issue Two: Pressure, Non Fiction, Sunny Singh | 0 |

Sunny Singh Recently I have been finding myself increasingly bewildered by the clamouring world...

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New Rules

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Gerard Johnson, Issue Two: Pressure, Non Fiction | 0 |

Gerard Johnson The Caribbean offers a fascinating case study of the benefits and costs of...

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On Non-Renewable Forms of Energy

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Katherine Agyeman-Agard, Non Fiction, non fiction 2 | 0 |

Katherine Agyemaa Agard 1. OIL Raleigh inhaled. There – jet black, viscous, the crudest oil,...

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Pear Tree Bottom: Land at a Crossroads

by ap | Apr 17, 2018 | Diana McCaulay, Issue One: Crossroads, Non Fiction | 3 |

DIANA MCCAULAY During the 1990s, I spent many weekends with friends at an old house on a hill,...

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State Capture

by ap | Apr 17, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Non Fiction, Policy Dude | 1 |

POLICY DUDE The limits of the power elite have been exposed in South Africa. Jacob Zuma and his...

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A Brief History of the Word ‘Pree’

by ap | Apr 17, 2018 | Isis Semaj-Hall, Issue One: Crossroads, Non Fiction | 4 |

ISIS SEMAJ-HALL On the face of it, pree is not a Caribbean word. Pree is a Jamaican word. Press...

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Reggae’s Voice: The Accent of Difference

by ap | Apr 17, 2018 | Annie Paul, Issue One: Crossroads, Non Fiction | 7 |

ANNIE PAUL and MIKIE BENNETT In February 2018 the new Netflix-BBC TV series Collateral debuted,...

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Middle Ground, HKW

August 25-27, 2023

https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/middle-ground#main

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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