Readings @ the Bookshop: in Limbo
For Release Upon Receipt - Friday, April 4, 2014
The University Bookshop was the site of an exciting literary event on Friday
March 28, featuring the Caribbean launch of Esther Figueroa's environmental
novel Limbo. Patrons experienced a feast of poetry, prose, humor and
literary analysis at the literary series readings@theBookshop
which featured Mark McWatt, Phillip Nanton and Esther Figueroa. Esteemed
Barbadian author George Lamming also graced the evening to give an introduction
on behalf of the featured author.
The evening, moderated by Dr. Jane Bryce, began with McWatt reading a segment
from his book Suspended Sentences and some of his new picture poems.
Following McWatt, Phillip Nanton read pieces from his hilarious collection
Island Voices. George Lamming then gave a scholarly and insightful talk
about Limbo and his relationship with the author, Esther Figueroa.
Figueroa ended the evening's readings with two chapters from Limbo after
which there was a book signing.
Books from the three authors are available for purchase at the
University Bookshop.
Photos of the event can be viewed here
About the Authors:
Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an award winning Jamaican independent filmmaker,
writer and linguist. With thirty years of media making including television
programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film, her
activist filmmaking gives voice to those outside of mainstream media. Figueroa
writes in a variety of genre - fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry - on a
wide range of topics. Her publications include Sociolinguistic
Metatheory, and At Home the Green Remains. Her films include the
award-winning feature documentary Jamaica for Sale. She lives in
Jamaica.
Philip Nanton, Ph.D. is well-known St. Vincent poet and short story writer.
He lives and works in Barbados as a writer & lecturer at UWI Cave Hill. He
is author of the recently published collection, Island Voices.
Mark McWatt, Ph.D. is a Guyanese author, educator and former head of the UWI
Cave Hill English Department. He has published Interiors, The Language of El
Dorado, The Journey to Le Repentir, and Suspended Sentences for which he won the
Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 2006.