Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
published: Sunday | August 13, 2006
Predator
From the corner of my eye I watch the mother push the stroller across the empty schoolyard. The sun beats down relentlessly on the swings and the sandbox, and the wind whips up particles of dirt and sand into the air.
Reprints
In the Arts Section of July 30, the printer's devil spilt the last lines of Steven Cramer and Ishion Hutchinson's poems. We reprint them here, with apologies.
Fly and the Black Samaritans
p>'Who killed Cock Robin?''I,' said the sparrow. 'With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.' 'Who saw him die?' 'I,' said the fly, 'with my little eye, I saw him die.'
McWatt's fresh, vibrant stories
Mark McWatt's Suspended Sentences has deservedly won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for 2006. This collection of 11 short stories, presented in a highly imaginative framework that is itself a story, is fresh and vibrant.
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