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by Jacqueline Sample St. Martin, Caribbean —The cover design of Nativity/Nativité/Natividad, a new poetry book out of St. Martin, appears to be asking us to enter the epic poem through a portal of two towering sculptures by Fernando Botero. The images that dominate the cover are of the colossal Adán and Eva bronze statues,...
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BRADES, Montserrat – Struggles of the heart, faith and troubled pasts abound in Church Affairs, the debut novel by Montserrat native Theo Semper. “Church Affairs doesn’t read like a novel from a first time author,” says Jeevan Robinson of mnialive.com. “Semper handles the story like someone with two or three books already under his...
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BRADES, Montserrat – Joseph “Reds” Perreira was the featured speaker for the 10th Annual Jim Allen Lecture Series. Here is a short excerpt about his thoughts on Jim as a batsman and the game of cricket as it is today.
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin – The author Cynthia Wilson, a grande dame of Barbadian culture, has presented copies of her short stories book, Same Sea … Another Wave, to seven St. Martin institutions, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). Same Sea recipients are the St. Martin’s Home and Bethany Home,...
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Truly Caribbean Woman, Nerissa Golden, shares some tips on perfecting the art of living. This is the first video in the Positively Passionate webinar series.
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Author and entrepreneur Nerissa Golden, uses the game of Farmville to teach some practical tools for building a business in the Positively Passionate webinar series.
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin – Felecita Williams, author of St. Martin’s newest autobiography Because of Prayer, returned home recently from a book tour, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). At least one of the island’s alert media caught wind of the writer’s book signing in Rotterdam at the Heritage Full...
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin – The island’s 2010-2011 school year began last week in the south and within short school doors will open in the north as well. But not a full week into the school year and Albert Chance of Van Dorp bookstore had to re-order copies of An Introduction to Government and...
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LITTLE BAY – Noted writer and multiple winner of the Montserrat literary Prize for Poetry Chadd Cumberbatch is set to release his first volume of work. The book entitled (hold your breath) ‘Ya Ya Surfeit – Mellonie Boy Dancng On Me Head’ is a collection of mostly poems and monologues inspired by Caribbean life....
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Italian gets Ph.D. on Lasana Sekou’s work GREAT BAY, St. Martin—While all interested eyes here were on the St. Martin Book Fair, visiting authors, and new books launched on St. Martin between the end of May and the first two weeks of June, there were other news brewing afar about the island’s writings, said...
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