Song for Gaboo
“You were our first star/ maestro of Broglie Street/ your piano flourishes cascading down the evening…” Poem of the Week (September 23), by John Robert Lee.
Read MoreJohn Robert Lee is a writer of prose, poetry, journalism; a librarian; and a former radio and television broadcaster. His latest publications are ‘elemental: new and selected poems, 1975-2007’ ( Peepal Tree Press, 2008), ‘Sighting and other poems of faith’ (Mahanaim, 2013) and ‘Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative writing: 1948-2013’ (Mahanaim, 2013). His bibliography of Caribbean literature is available here.
Round 2: Trinidad & Tobago-St.Lucia
Round two continues with a Caribbean derby.
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Round 1: Canada-St. Lucia
A Caribbean-Canadian confrontation in our Poetry World Cup.
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Nobel Laureate Week 2014
John Robert Lee reports from St. Lucia’s Nobel Laureate Week.
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At Capernaum, boats
“This is the Port of the boat people/ After Dessalines and Duvalier, HIV and cholera/ After tornado and tremblor…” Weekend poem, to mark the anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, by John Robert Lee.
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Stories from St. Lucia
“Then the boy’s voice, rough-edged, moving into wailing. This came into the man’s guts, it seemed.” As part of a special feature to mark St. Lucia’s national day, two stories by John Robert Lee.
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Poet of the Month: John Robert Lee
“I try always for depth and vision…” John Robert Lee, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, interviewed by Jacob Silkstone.
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After Gary Butte
“…souls many, so many, Ramona/ lovers scarved with rainbows/ scattering galaxies out of sad earth.” Poem of the Week (November 12), by John Robert Lee.
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