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.
The Jamaican Government will be allocating additional funds to the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme according to an announcement by Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, and relayed to the public in a speech delivered by library chief Joy Douglas, at a recent launch of ‘Last Reel’, a new poetry collection by Poet Laureate (2014-2017), Professor Mervyn Morris.
KINGSTON, Jamaica The Government will be allocating additional funds for the development and execution of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme.
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Three pre-eminent Jamaican poets are lauding fellow poet Ishion Hutchinson for being shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious International Griffin Poetry Prize. One of the world’s most generous poetry awards, the prize, this year, is worth CDN$130,000.
“Today we celebrate and properly recognise someone who embodies excellence,” was the proxy declaration of Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange on Sunday. She was referring to Mervyn Morris, a man whose exemplary.