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Ide Thompson In Our Caribbean —————————–Christianity Is another name —–for —————————–Death....
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Ide Thompson, Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry | 0 |
Ide Thompson In Our Caribbean —————————–Christianity Is another name —–for —————————–Death....
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Jannine T. Horsford, Poetry | 0 |
Jannine T. Horsford Days here when the sun doesn’t shine – it drenches. Today I walk from the Small Gate across Streatham Lodge Road under a sun doling out heat like a tap turned on: a hot pumping revenge. In the blaze of...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Nigel Assam, Poetry | 0 |
Nigel Assam Further from Empire than my predecessors, this language I use is mine too. The same sea they saw I have seen, and felt too, in the same way, its familiar salt stinging in the same wind crossing from the horizon they...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Letitia Marie Pratt, Poetry, Poetry 2 | 0 |
Letitia Marie Pratt dear husband: you are doomed to meander the earth alone but she will not have you. you’ve grown wary of scowling rivers that flow between thighs. waters scorch your tongue as your young crawl from my hips...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry, Ubaldimir Guerra | 0 |
Ubaldimir Guerra Course Title: Caribbean Poetry Topic: Intertextuality in Caribbean Literature Duration: 2 – 75 minute class sessions Primary text: Kamau Brathwaite: The Voice of African Presence, Ngugi wa Thiong’o Supplementary...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Anna Corniffe, Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry | 1 |
Anna Corniffe One day you will tell her about the way you forgot all the names you meant to give her. You will tell her about the way your mother moved in your chest when you saw her face for the first time. You will tell her...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry, Traci-Ann Wint-Hayles | 0 |
Traci-Ann Wint-Hayles Life was searing And we overly complacent Lacking intuition Complained for the dense humidity ———————sorrow...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry, Poetry 2, Sonia Farmer | 0 |
Sonia Farmer SIT DOWN AND TRY TO BE SOMEONE: (This Is Not) an Interview with the Interior Designer 1. how wonderful that at this kitchen table people are seeking adventure knowing that it will be delivered to them come in do you...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Adam Patterson, Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry, Poetry 2 | 0 |
Adam Patterson My skin is yellow / My hair is long / Between two worlds / I do belong / My father was rich and white / He forced my mother late one night / What do they call me / My name is Saffronia / My name is Saffronia. –...
Read Moreby ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Jovanté Anderson, Poetry, Poetry 2 | 1 |
Jovanté Anderson Gangsters use embalming fluid to kill The Jamaica Star And on this, the ninth night, when you gather by the sanctity of rum, pouring slow to bless the thirsty earth and light the path to places you cyaah see,...
Read Moreby ap | Apr 16, 2018 | Ishion Hutchinson, Issue One: Crossroads, Poetry | 0 |
ISHION HUTCHINSON When noon hits the marl into a valve, hissing fangs of cane flags between the bend— lattice blinding shutters and stunting kites, he comes out with his staff to the square, fox blades of croton leaves in his...
Read Moreby ap | Apr 16, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Poetry, Richard 'Dingo' Dingwall | 0 |
RICHARD ‘DINGO’ DINGWALL We made our way down from the hills. The taste, lost, somewhere, amid dense undergrowth and loose stones. Distant drumming, gradually ceding to the mutterings of unreasonable mirrors. No...
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