Delighted to spread the news that videos of Pam Mordecai (my august parent) reading her poetry – including some of her children’s poems – are now available online at http://mordecai.citl.mun.ca/. Definitely worth checking out. Thanks to Stephanie McKenzie at Memorial University

The story of three generations in a Sino-Guyanese family, The Last Ship (Peepal Tree, 2015) bears several traits typical of Anglophone Caribbean women’s writing of the late 20C / early 21C. Particularly notable is its focus on relationships among women, as family

Walcott, Another Life – St Lucia Lovelace, The Dragon Can’t Dance – Trinidad Brodber, Myal – Jamaica Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea  – Dominica Brathwaite, The Arrivants – Barbados Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas  – Trinidad Hopkinson, Midnight Robber – Jamaica/Guyana/Trinidad/Canada Díaz, The