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/2011/07/zaboca-child/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/zaboca-child/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:01:23 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2911 .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/zaboca-child/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/saving-rupa/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/saving-rupa/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:02:17 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2892 .]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/saving-rupa/feed/ 0 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/writers-on-writers-lelawattee-manoo-rahming/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/writers-on-writers-lelawattee-manoo-rahming/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:01:41 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2897 Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, and prose writer married to a Bahamian and resident in The Bahamas. Her poetry and stories have appeared online and in numerous publications around the region, including The Caribbean Writer, Journal of Caribbean Literature, Poui, WomanSpeak, Yinna, and numerous collections and anthologies. ]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2011/07/writers-on-writers-lelawattee-manoo-rahming/feed/ 0 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/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/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/writers-on-writers-christian-campbell/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-christian-campbell/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:02:17 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=2329 Christian Campbell is the author of Running the Dusk, which was a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize and is currently shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the UK, and a recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Toronto.]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/10/writers-on-writers-christian-campbell/feed/ 6 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/05/writers-on-writers-patricia-glinton-meicholas/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/05/writers-on-writers-patricia-glinton-meicholas/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 04:02:24 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1929 writer on writers is Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, a Bahamian satirist, poet, storyteller and novelist who may be best known for her books How to be a True-True Bahamian and The Ninety-Nine Cent Breakfast, or for her collection of Bahamian folk tales, An Evening in Guanima, which every Bahamian schoolchild appears to have read. . Again owing to circumstances beyond the control of us all (including acts of God, ash clouds, and the demands of Patti's own life), we don't have a video for you. But we will one day add audio—or, at the very least, a picture. ]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2010/05/writers-on-writers-patricia-glinton-meicholas/feed/ 1 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:01:19 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1367 In a China Shop, Seventy Poems, and Open Testament, and the challenges of publishing poems in The Bahamas.]]> http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/12/writers-on-writers-obediah-michael-smith/feed/ 2 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/writers-on-writers-patrick-rahming/ http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/writers-on-writers-patrick-rahming/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:58:59 +0000 webmaster http://tonguesoftheocean.org/?p=1048 http://tonguesoftheocean.org/2009/08/writers-on-writers-patrick-rahming/feed/ 2