My grateful thanks to Evan Jones for his kind permission to quote extensively from ‘The Song of the Banana Man’.
In ‘Some poems that made me’, the quote from ‘The Port of Many Ships’ is by permission of the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of John Masefield. The lines from ‘A Careful Passion’ by the wonderful Derek Walcott are quoted by very kind permission of his daughters Anna and Lizzie Walcott.
The ‘Nadine Gordimer Memorial Lecture’ was delivered at the 5th African Women Writers Symposium as part of Arts Alive International Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017. With thanks to Roshnie Moonsammy. Published in City Press, South Africa and Carcanet Blog.
‘Redemption is the Key’ was commissioned for the 2014 International Forum on the Novel, Villa Gillet, Lyon, France.
‘Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise’ was specially commissioned by editor/poet Jeffrey Johnson for ‘Stars Shall bend Their Voices’, Poets, Favourite Hymns and Spiritual Songs, forthcoming from Orison Books.
‘The Caribbean imaginary’ is adapted from a talk given at NYU.
‘My Painted Skirt Like A Scenic 78’ first appeared in PALAVER magazine, edited by Michael Jarrett.
‘For Derek Walcott’ was published in Review 95: Literature and Arts of the Americas edited by Dan Shapiro.
‘For Keith Jarrett Rainmaker’ is adapted from a talk given at 50th Anniversary of International Writing Programme, Iowa City, Iowa.