Inkle and Yarico Mary O'DonoghueAs a young man of twenty, Thomas Inkle sets out for Barbados to inspect the family sugar estates. On the way he is shipwrecked on a small West Indian island inhabited by Carib Indians. He alone escapes as his shipmates are slaughtered, and is rescued by Yarico, a Carib woman who takes him as, 'an ideal, strange and obliging lover.' So begins an erotic encounter, explored with poetic, imaginative intensity, which has a profound effect on both. Amongst
The second novel from this highly-acclaimed
Qassim Haddad – Five Poems
She teaches Caribbean Literature at the University of Maryland
not only of the natural world
undiminished in recent years despite a stroke in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is a prize-winning poet
In The Dream Al quale ella
Ismith Khan brings a tender and affecting style to stories of troubled childhoods
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bringing parallels with Ovid’s famous poem describing his last night before exile
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spelling out the complexities of life in a family of one man with four wives and Adel Khozam’s reflections
