Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann’s
Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time will be published this summer (August 2021) by Rutgers University Press. Here are excerpts of reviews, followed by the book description:
Frances Negrón-Muntaner (
Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America) writes, “Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann’s
Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time is a groundbreaking book from a rising star in Caribbean, decolonial, and ethnic studies. Shifting our attention from the emergence of big names to the exchange of small magazines, Gonzalez Seligmann invites us to the rethink much of our assumed knowledge about one of the world’s richest literary traditions.”
LAST FERRY TO ORCADIA: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn.
On the Wednesday night before the election a violent storm hit Caithness. Around eight o clock the sky turned black and great sheets of snow, sleet and hail lashed in from the Atlantic on a cruel North West wind. Ghostly, almost thunderless, white lightening flashed like a signal out of the firmament. Surely, I thought, this is a portent, like the Valkyrie seen over Murkle before the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, for one of the most important and strangest elections in Scotland’s history.
Because what sort of election is it when the main issue on the minds of the majority of the Scottish people, no matter that the media insist it isn’t, is independence for their country. But not so, it would appear, for the SNP, the only party that can deliver it? The SNP constantly deny this, but they have not campaigned for it. What an extraordinary set of affairs. Do they really think they can achieve independence by ignoring
Of these 85, 16 would be for affordable rent, with 13 available for shared ownership.
Stewart already owns 30-36 Clarendon Road and has the backing of the trustees who have a 125-year lease on the WICC.
“We’re in a good place, we have the money, and the project is readily funded but we’re yet to send off our formal planning application as the council are stood in our way, he said.
The developer said a scheme could take just 23 months to complete if planning permission was granted, and would back a name change for the centre to the African Caribbean Cultural Centre.
From the NS archive: Just the poet to make us yawn again 24 May 1999: Ted Hughes made the Poet Laureateship seem exciting. But for his successor New Labour has gone to a tired, old, Oxbridge voice.
The position of Poet Laureate in England – that is, the national poet ostensibly chosen by Buckingham Palace, but in fact, in recent decades, nominated by the Government and approved by the Queen – has long been controversial for its intermingling of art and politics. Several notable names – Walter Scott and Philip Larkin among them – have turned down the offer (which offers in exchange an annual stipend and a large quantity of sherry). Ted Hughes had held the position for 14 years until his death in 1998; his successor was to be appointed by a New Labour government. Michael Glover, writing here in the New Statesman in 1999, speculates that this was the opportunity for a “People’s Poet”, or at least one more modern than the man who ended up in the job: Oxford-educated, co