The Verandah Post
A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.
Performance of Miss Lou's Dutty Tough by Pauline Henry-Blake
In these times, this poem by the beloved Louise Bennett-Coverley may depict how many are feeling as we are inundated by storm showers (rain a fall) yet hard times prevail (dutty tough).
Bomber and the Breadfruit Tree
Would you cut down a tree, without planting its replacement, if immediately felt the dire consequences in your life?
A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley - Critical Book Review
Masterfully narrated by the acclaimed, award-winning actress Bahni Turpin, A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley, is an engrossing, evocative, and highly original historical romance that is especially moving as an audiobook.
Mama Ocean by Neptune Naiadis
"Mama Ocean" explores the relationship between a teenage mother and her son, Ocean, her trauma & postpartum depression. The poem thematically conveys elements of familial abandonment, teenage motherhood, depression, sexual assault - and birth as a result. The piece traverses her psyche, travelling from the beginning of innocence to the loss through metaphoric and allegoric language.