Category: Tanya Shirley

This Body’s Voice

by ap | Apr 16, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Poetry, Tanya Shirley | 0 |

TANYA SHIRLEY Why are you here I used to suck the blood from men’s necks empty myself to make room for them But that is in the past They did not die I am a room full of bloody men Why do you say this I should have died once...

The New Commandments

by ap | Apr 16, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Poetry, Tanya Shirley | 0 |

TANYA SHIRLEY There are lanes weaving through Kingston where women spilling from zinc shacks wear bras and batty riding shorts to corner shops. Breasts like sling-shots ready to spray bullets. Big bellies saying they’ve...

Hood Top

by ap | Apr 16, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Poetry, Tanya Shirley | 1 |

TANYA SHIRLEY Some big fat gyal cyaan handle buddy yet still waan ride pon Kabasaki, mawga slim gyal cyaan tek winery . . . hood top, hood top if you love bike back, hood top. Shabba Ranks Your buddy is not a bike. The feel of...

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