Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
Published: Monday Sunday | March 8, 2009
A chat with Peter Abrahams
REAMS OF literature line the spacious living room of Coyaba, Peter Abrahams' home in the hills of Rock Hall, St Andrew. Two items reveal the evolving thinker: A copy of the book Caribbean Reasonings by Trinidadian Pan Africanist George Padmore, and a satellite dish that helps keep Abrahams in tune with world affairs. Read More...
Sunday Sauce - Much do-do about nothing
I do not see any reason why some people are bent on creating much fuss about a certain type of fertiliser. Have they noticed how certain ground provisions and vegetables are bigger and tastier of late? Read More...
Remembering Edna
Born at the turn of the last century, Edna Swithenbank was the middle child of an English father and a Jamaican mother. She's recorded as having a bold and independent spirit from an early age. By the time she married Norman Manley in 1921, she had already passed through several art schools and studied with Maurice Harding, an animal sculptor. Read More...
Writers Prize winners to be revealed this week
On Wednesday, March 11, the winners for Best Book and Best First Book in the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize will be announced at the Philip Sherlock Centre, University of the West Indies, Mona campus, at 6:00 p.m. Read More...
Literary arts - House for sale
When Mrs Spence saw the 'House for Sale' sign attached to Ralph St. Claver's metal gate, she quickly called her husband. They stood on their veranda in wonderment for they had no idea that Ralph wanted to sell his two-storey house. It was a nice residence, and as far as they knew, Ralph had no plans to migrate in his retirement. Read More...
Did 'Motty' Perkins inspire book praising Manley?
It was a talk-show host who inspired Delano Franklyn to compile the legacy of former Jamaica prime minister, Michael Manley, in his fifth book which was launched at the University of the West Indies on February 27. Read More...
'We should be concerned with breaking the silence' (An excerpt from 'Jamaica Journal')
The following is an adaptation of an address delivered by Professor Rex Nettleford on the occasion of the United Nations Observance of the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, at the UN Headquarters, New York, on March 26, 2007. Read More...