The Verandah Post

A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.

Mason Haigh 02/09/2022 Mason Haigh 02/09/2022

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?

Tara Downs, Neila Ebanks, Jik-Reuben Pringle 10/06/2022 Tara Downs, Neila Ebanks, Jik-Reuben Pringle 10/06/2022

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

Akilah White 27/05/2022 Akilah White 27/05/2022

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