Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Jane King on Derek Walcott’s magisterial ‘White Egrets’
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Simple Complex Shapes
“Take her by the hand,/ by the hair,/…lead her/ to the sea/ …the pinhead/ where, if she’s to dance,/ she’ll enjoy horizons.” By Vahni Capildeo, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Outside the Courthouse
“…the colonel/ with his special bloody unit,/ …the preacher preaching of gifts/ waiting on the other side/ of these shadows.” By Kwame Dawes, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Canvas
“…in this tiny tumble-down dwelling,/ small village children stood, not on a bare/ dirt-floor, but tiptoe at the rim of the world.” By Esther Phillips, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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The Law Concerning Mermaids
“…maybe this is the problem with empires: how they have forced us to live in a world lacking in mermaids…” Weekend poem, by Kei Miller.
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