Category: Poetry

Three poems

by ap | Feb 19, 2023 | Justin Haynes, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

Behold Couva’s Sam Manning,
audio farmer and Caribbean spy,
splicing honey into singers’ mouths
throughout the Americas.

Two Poems

by ap | Feb 18, 2023 | ANIKA CHRISTOPHER, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

The truth is, I’m terrified of this body
of water, the way it ripples through
my attempt at freezing it in fabric –
big basketball pants and an oversized men’s tee,
my hips still spin my school skirts
into hurricanes.

Rest in Power

by ap | Feb 17, 2023 | GEOFFREY PHILP, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

GEOFFREY PHILP For Scratch Filing past to offer respect to the remains of the giant who slept in a casket so small you would have thought it was built for a child still dressed in his red schoolboy cap and rings that bedazzled...

Basin Tanka, From Memory

by ap | Feb 16, 2023 | AMARA AMARYAH, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

AMARA AMARYAH 1 you are medicine. you tell me, my head weighed down water dripping slick paths down my neck. i inhale, squint eyes, resemble someone 2 with dainty palms you weave strands back to their wildness detangling, i...

Two Poems

by ap | Feb 9, 2023 | KEVIN REIGH, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

KEVIN REIGH black apollo / head cornerstone I remember the blistered petal whispers of your lisp a slingshot seeking the smoothest stones a sniper peaking out from a parapet your slick words and syllables thick with the sulfur...

No Gods

by ap | Feb 9, 2023 | Nigel Assam, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

NIGEL ASSAM Those are not gods, but men, in ships passing on the horizon. No need to give praise, or offer sacrifices to the sky or to the sea. Waves won’t roar in anger, no deity lives under them, no god will thunder...

Ablution

by ap | Feb 9, 2023 | Kay-Ann Henry, Poetry, PREE 10 | 0 |

KAY-ANN HENRY And where have we found ourselves yet again? at the mercy of the land the air the water. I could run, but either way the sea is rising. Best we can do is use what will be left of the land— a palmetto fan for the...

Da First Fruit of Our Sperit

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Ide Thompson, Issue Two: Pressure, Poetry | 0 |

Ide Thompson In Our Caribbean —————————–Christianity Is another name —–for —————————–Death....

The Sun

by 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...

The Sky Has Not Changed

by 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...

a curse to adam

by 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...

Bring back love: A Lesson Plan and Poem

by 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...