The St Mary Literary Festival had its successful inaugural staging at the Port Maria Anglican Church hall two Saturdays ago. Doubtlessly, the team organising it breathed a collective sigh of relief as, after months of hard work, which started last.
Tanya Batson-Savage (Susumba) writes about the Jamaican Music Museum’s focus this month on trombonist Don Drummond. The musician will be honored though musical performances, poetry and presentations. The Jamaican Music Museum’s Reggae Month series opens on February 7, 2016, with the launch of Heather Augustyn’s biography Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest…
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The fifth staging of the Jamaica Poets Nomadic School Tour, which is being held in collaboration with the Poetry Society of Jamaica, will be officially launched on October 31 at 7 p.m. at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.