The Verandah Post
A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.
A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
What is your approach to ageing? Are you desperately keeping the grey hairs and aches at bay or are you anticipating the embrace of a slower paced life, possibly in retirement, or faster paced life completing the bucket list. This brief look at ageing in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun nudges at these questions.
Performance of Long Celia by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Unna Hear Dem Drums!? WAKE UP - may we answer the call in this poem about Long Celia - whose spirit they could never capture
Book Review of Sheila Murray's Finding Edward by Mason Haigh
If the immigrant experience and that of minorities is a reflection of society’s values then what does it say about us when their stories never quite make it into the history books or have been hidden?
Video Performance of "Expanding" by Tara Downs
When you think of your grandmother, what sights, sounds, smells and senses do these memories inspire? In this video performance, we are invited to dance down memory lane
Daylight Denied - Discussion Essay on Race in "Daylight Come"
In this discussion essay, the author explores the depiction of race and perhaps, more accurately, post race considerations in this dystopian work “Daylight Come” by Diana McCaulay