Musings, Mazes, Muses, MarginsThere is nothing quite like Gordon Rohlehrs Musings, Mazes, Muses, Margins in Caribbean writing; probably its nearest neighbours are Kamau Brathwaites The Zea Mexican Diary and Trenchtown Rock. Over a period of more than forty years, Rohlehr, supreme public critic of the post colonial Caribbean, its creative writing and the historian and deep analyser of calypso, has been paying quiet attention to his inner consciousness, a fictive journeying that has

and the prospect of a final and bloody reckoning with an old and hated adversary

and flowers fall unexpectedly from a clear sky

offering the reader an escape hatch to the country and a lungful of bracing air

Rosa Yassin Hassan

Formally inventive and intricately composed

there’s an enlivening counterpoint between the natural rhythms of creole speech and the metric organisation of the line and its patterns of sound

As well as having their own collections

"John McKeown’s dark

Music Outside captures the spirit

Hisham Bustani

of belonging nowhere

In the section giving its title to the book