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Here’s to those postcolonial Bards in white flannels wielding the willow like their consonants and vowels, spicing the English tongue with...

By John Agard

For Gordon Rohlehr i woke one morning and the Caribbean was gone. She’d definitely been there the night before, i’d heard...

By Kendel Hippolyte

1. Maus bilong Chauka Belo pairap, skul i pinis. Mi harim solwara i bruk long nambis. Mi smelim solwara...

FIRST, IN YOUR home-town bar in the shadow of Canada’s Northern Rockies, you watch a girl named Pitch bless...

By DW Wilson

Belo pairap, skul i pinis. Mi harim solwara i bruk long nambis. Mi smelim solwara long win. Mi lap...

THERE COMES A stage in life when one sometimes forgets to celebrate the passing years; truth be told, it’s...

By Margaret Busby

WHEN I LOOK online, I do not find my great-uncle Michael Kanerusine’s name on any of the websites my...

I REMEMBER A severe drought in 1964 when I was a child. First the grass became crisp and brown,...

By Diana McCaulay

I LOVED THE smell of the cotton cloth measured out from bolts that made a soft, slapping sound as...

By Kaiser Haq

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque, French Painter IT STARTED WITH a life-and-death conversation. The doctor, faced with...

Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was born in Hobart in 1948. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Launceston,...

By Laura Elvery

‘NATIONS TELL THEMSELVES stories,’ the Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole wrote recently. ‘They are not fully true, they are often...

By Julianne Schultz