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Volume 6 Numbers 1&2 September 2010

Home and Away from Home

Front Cover: The Home of the Who-You Bird, 2005. Pencil on paper Contents: Words and Images from Mexico: Four Poems, Four Works. Eliff Lara Astorga

Sonnet to a Love Lost at Fort Groyne. Brenda Chester DoHarris

An Interview with Wilson Harris. Michael Gilkes

The Town and I. Stephanie Bowry

Tale of Another Crossing: Brigid Wells: The Diary. Roxana Kawall

To The Running of My River. Grace Nichols

The Distinctive Indo-Caribbean Art and Voice of Harold Sonny Ladoo. Professor Victor J. Ramraj

Welcome to the Plantation: Three Novels by David Dabydeen. Keith Jardim

VISUAL ARTS: The Artist Donald Locke: Notes on a Career and its Development. Carl E. Hazelwood CREATIVE WRITING: New Poems by Stanley Greaves

Poems by Grace Nichols

New Poems by Mahadai Das

Poems by Stephanie Bowry

Poems by Cicely Rodway

An extract from ‘Moving House’ ... a Guyana childhood. Michael Gilkes

An extract from Tell Us We’re Home. Marina Budhos

BOOK REVIEWS: Mariam Pirbhai. Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. Ameena Gafoor

Cyril Dabydeen. Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1970-2002. Mariam Pirbhai

Edward Baugh. Frank Collymore: A Biography. Ameena Gafoor

Wilson Harris, The Ghost of Memory. Michael Gilkes

N.D. Williams. Julie Mango. Frank Birbalsingh

Particia Dathan. Bauxite, Sugar and Mud: Memories of Living in Colonial Guyana 192-1944. Frank Birbalsingh

Rex Nettleford. Dance : Renewal and Continuity: The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 1962-2008. L’Antoinette Osunide Stines

Lawrence Hill. The Book of Negros. Judith Misrahi-Barak

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