http://tonguesoftheocean.org words and writing from the islands Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/04/six-word-stories/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/04/six-word-stories/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:01:57 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2728 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/04/six-word-stories/feed/ 3 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/writers-on-writers-ian-gregory-strachan/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/writers-on-writers-ian-gregory-strachan/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:01:12 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2668 . There’s something about what the poet is doing, and what poetry does for community, which is binding people and creating a story, creating a narrative.]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/writers-on-writers-ian-gregory-strachan/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/caribbean-odyssey/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/caribbean-odyssey/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:02:44 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2672 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/caribbean-odyssey/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/cycles/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/cycles/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:01:01 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2666 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/03/cycles/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-a-philip-armbrister/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-a-philip-armbrister/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:02:46 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2411 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-a-philip-armbrister/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/in-trouble-with-nature/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/in-trouble-with-nature/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:01:45 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2409 .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/in-trouble-with-nature/feed/ 16 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/coal/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/coal/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:02:07 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2344 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/coal/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/hurricane-watch/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/hurricane-watch/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:01:53 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2342 . . Every year we are forced to reinvent ourselves, growing shabbier. . . . .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/hurricane-watch/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-olive-senior/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-olive-senior/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:02:26 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2340 Olive Senior is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction; her latest is the poetry book Shell. Her novel Dancing Lessons and a children’s picture book, Birthday Suit, will be published in 2011. Her short story collection Summer Lightning won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and her poetry book Over the Roofs of the World was shortlisted for Canada’s Governor-General’s Award for Literature. Other books include Arrival of the Snake-Woman, Discerner of Hearts (fiction); and Talking of Trees, Gardening in the Tropics (poetry).]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-olive-senior/feed/ 2 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/fabulous-eyelids/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/fabulous-eyelids/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:01:16 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2338 . O sister, my sister of the fabulous eyelids unlocked, you have our father’s eyes. I took your hand. With you, our house at once grew.]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/fabulous-eyelids/feed/ 1