A feast of art & craft
The showers of rain were ignored by the hundreds of Jamaicans continually filtering through the gates of the Forestry Department, last weekend. They were drawn to the annual Arts and Craft Fair - a creative clay feast - by the Potter's...
Fire
Sometime after midnight, there was a sharp crack. Nadine hurled out of sleep and forgetting, groped the space beside her. It was cold. She sat, ears straining. The wail, when it came, was that of an animal scalded and left to die.
A handful of peas
He was a young man, but his children were hungry, and he didn't know what to do. He walked the streets that night, trying to see the sky, but even the stars were blurred by the polluted mist and the lights that hung like...
Prayers of gratitude
Poems of praise and yearning fill this debut collection by Jacqueline Bishop. These songs of exile are translated into prayers of gratitude and joy for her home island, Jamaica, but there is something sinister at the edges of Bishop's keen...
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