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This Smiling Door: A Review of Gavin Barrett's "Understan" – PRISM international


Gavin Barrett’s poetry collection
Understan takes the reader on a beautiful kaleidoscopic journey from Goa, India, throughout the various places he has lived, including Toronto and environs. The poems sojourn with his enduring love for his wife and his love for humanity. The poems in this multifaceted collection celebrate and satirize through lush description.
Understan manifests Barrett’s multiple influences from T.S. Eliot to Arun Kolatkar in poems inspired by family, faith (Catholicism), racism, and social injustice.
Barrett is the founder and co-curator of the east-end Toronto-based Tartan Turban Secret Readings, the focus of which is giving emerging visible minority writers a stage. The name of Barrett’s reading series acknowledges the multiple strands of his identity: born in Bombay (now Mumbai) of Anglo-Indian and Goan-East African parentage, he has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Xavier’s College (in Bombay) and an M.A. in English Literatu ....

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"My bloodline outstretches rivers": Divine Animal by Brandon Wint : Arc Poetry


Brandon Wint’s collection,
Divine Animal, showcases his facility with words. Like the work of spoken word artists such as Toronto’s Andrea Thompson, his poetry sings on paper.
Divine Animal is rich with anger, mourning, yearning, celebration, sensuality, and hope. The collection is also a timely and important reflection on the origins of systemic racism and long-time police brutality against Black people in the Western world.
In his prelude to
Divine Animal, “Incantation: Memory of Water,” Wint’s narrator considers the history of his Jamaican and Barbadian ancestors. Wint’s epigraph from Saint Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott sets the tone and evokes the Caribbean setting, “its history,” and the “scars of colonialism.” ....

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