Women's Wear Daily

Grace Wales Bonner’s Caribbean Poets Society

Grace Wales Bonner has gone back to college, and cracked open her poetry books, for a collection inspired by Caribbean thought and intellectualism, expat students in Britain and the wardrobes of ...
Global Voices Online

Benjamin Zephaniah, a unique British poet with Caribbean roots and a wide appeal in a multicultural society, passes on at age 65

He was born Benjamin Springer in 1958 in the tough neighbourhood of Handsworth, Birmingham (where veteran roots reggae band Steel Pulse originated). He once described that area of the UK Midlands as ...
The Boston Globe

Derek Walcott, 87, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean

WASHINGTON — Derek Walcott, a Nobel laureate in literature who became one of the English-speaking world’s most renowned poets by portraying the lush, complex world of the Caribbean with a precise ...
The Conversation

The white privilege of British poetry is getting worse

Last week, Claudia Rankine’s book, Citizen, won the Forward prize for Best Collection. Rankine, a Jamaican poet living in the US, was the only non-white poet on the shortlist. The list for best first ...
PBS

Caribbean artists remember poet Derek Walcott

Since Nobel laureate and Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott died Friday, remembrances have flooded in for the complicated but mighty writer, who captured the lush beauty of the Caribbean and ...