Caribbean & Latin American

In Jubilation!, over fifty contemporary Jamaican poets reflect in complex, outspoken, meditative, humorous and outrageous ways on Jamaican independence from Britain and the years that followed.The anthology includes work from the best-known poets of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845232030Author Victor D. QuestelFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Adrian Augier is an award-winning poet and producer whose previous collections of poetry include "Bridgemaker," "Genesis," "Of Many Voices," "Out of Darkness," and "Tears & Triumphs." He is a founder of the Lighthouse Theatre Company and the Factory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231712Author Geoffrey PhilpFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Wayne Brown's On the Coast was first published in 1972. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK and established Brown as one of the finest young poets of the post-Walcott generation. It was followed in 1988 by Voyages, a collection that...

When they first began to appear in the 1930s, George Campbell's poems blasted through the colonial Victorianism of contemporary Jamaican poetry. Dubbed 'the poet of the revolution' by Jamaica's founding political father, Norman Manley, Campbell was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231439Author Brian ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press LtdWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231422Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press LtdWeight(grams) 250g

A retired fisherman, Monty Cupidon, encounters a naked, bloodied and traumatised woman standing at the cross-roads. He offers comfort and takes her in. Suffering from amnesia, she cannot tell him anything about herself. The only clues are the signs that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230883Author Frances-Marie CokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

These poems by Millicent Graham have a compactness and economy that belies the complex and expansive range of emotions and considerations that occupy her imagination. Graham's poems offer us a way to see her distinctly contemporary and urban Jamaica...

Opal Palmer Adisa employs the modes of autobiography, dramatic monologues, lyrical observations, encomiums, prose poems and prophetic rants in a collection that enacts the construction of a sense of identity whose dimensions encompass a Rastafarian sense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230395Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230326Author Jacqueline BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Carib's Leap brings together work from a dozen previous collections, and major new poems including those on the Big Drum Dance of Carriacou, poems that are alight with almost forty years of imaginative involvement with the Caribbean.Laurence Lieberman is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230210Author Dr Velma PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230098Author Delores GauntlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956417534Author Gustavo PereiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 121g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833793Author Sasenarine PersaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as 'a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment', E.A. Markham was a leading light in British Caribbean writing. He was a poet,...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and...

Showcasing one of the Caribbean's most original and innovative poets, this anthology exemplifies sharp observation, disarming honesty about the human heart's complexities, and a most sophisticated sense of landscape and space. These are poems about...

Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454738Author Katherine HedeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Ana Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted...

Raymond Ramcharitar is a writer, a journalist, and a cultural critic from Trinidad. He is the author of a controversial study of the Trinidadian media, "Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad," the short story collection "The Island Quintet,"...

In Pitch Lake, Andre Bagoo, author of the Bocas prize shortlisted poetry collection, Burn, displays a continuing commitment to exploration and experiment.Andre Bagoo has been awarded The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first-time publication in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715034Author Jean GoulbourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-smooth waist, when the smell of Charlie mingles with the chemicals of her hair and the groove is of the sweetest friction - how is a...

Stanley Greaves brings a painter's perceptions and a musician's ear to the writing of this substantial selection of his poetry written over the past forty years. He describes his painting as 'a kind of allegorical story-telling' and the same kind of...

Monica Minott's host of witnesses are women who are collectively grounded in ritual and spiritual understanding, practical, sensible - though, like all of us, flawed in their humanity.Book InformationISBN 9781845233174Author Monica MinottFormat...

Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Award and a NIFCA Gold! Leaving Atlantis is a suite of poems that explores the unstable territory between public and private. They are addressed to the great Barbadian novelist and thinker, George Lamming, the silent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845232979Author Stanley GreavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845232481Author Colin ChannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845232306Author Jane KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Winner of a Casa de las Americas Prize 2010, one of Latin America's oldest and most prestigious literary awards.The jury said the collection "captures a sense of the complexities of historical, social and cultural aspects of contemporary Caribbean"...

Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2011.These poems written over the past thirty years, but most of them recently, have as their focal point an act of homage to the great Guyanese poet Martin Carter, voice of a nation. They celebrate a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230814Author Mark McWattFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

John Robert Lee brings a quiet, reflective, often autobiographical approach to his concerns with Caribbean life, art and faith. Within carefully crafted formal structures - and some experimentation with traditional forms - he finds the space to give his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230197Author Heather RoyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd