Kwesi Abbensetts




NEW CARIBBEAN Editorial: Vladimir Lucien

Artwork:
Selections from 'The Face: a feeling': 8 Portraits by Kwesi Abbensetts

Review Essays:
Deconstructing Decolonisation: Victor Questel’s Collected Poems by Ben Etherington
She’ll Chew You Up: Notes on Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal and Tiphanie Yanique's Wife by Tiana Reid

And 23 new poems selected by Vladimir Lucien:

Clink Clink
by Shivanee Ramlochan
Penny Kill Shilling
by Monica Minnot
Deadlines
by Juleus Ghunta
Mama River
by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Poem for a Gunman
by Soyini Ayanna Forde
The Day He Got It
by Vladimir Lucien
Finishing Your Work
by Yashika Graham
“We the Dirt”
by Adrian Green
Norene’s Laugh
by Chadd Cumberbatch
Under the Tamarind
by Royston Emmanuel
Straight
by Mel Cooke
Exorcism / Freeport
by Richard Georges
Anointing
by Jannine Horsford
Crystal Chandeliers
by Lesley-Ann Wanliss
Beyond the River Road
by Linda M. Deane
Stormy Night
by Damian Femi Rene
Tony’s Taxi Service
by Colin Robinson
Cracked
by Desiree Seebaran
How to Exhale
by Chenée Daley
Delicious Pick
by Felicia Montoute
 
 

CORDITE POETRY REVIEW
ISSUE 81: NEW CARIBBEAN
Released: 15 May 2017