Writers Who Paint, Painters Who Write Philip Fried

Writers Who Paint, Painters Who Write Philip FriedGreat writers from all parts of the Caribbean have always created vivid pictures in the minds of the readers of their poetry, novels and essays. What we have here, in this beautiful selection of three contemporary Jamaican multi talented artists, is a continuation and strengthening of a long tradition of the concretization of literary allusions in visual form. Jacqueline Bishop, so well known for her poems and her artistic activism offers us, in her

is the feature Celebrating Adonis with testimonies by some of the world’s most eminent literary figures

poverty and climate change

my grandfather’s cloak still hooked on it

Tess Gallagher

TAYEB SALIH (1929–2009)

everyone asked with their eyes

and Artistic Director of Scarf magazine

most of the time hides somewhere else

I come to a figure standing on the heather

he edited the 2003 Salmon Poetry anthology Fire and Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North

Weissbort has published numerous collections of translations and anthologies

Anita O’Day