Jamaica, Home
Elisha Efua Bartels talks to Jamaican novelists and poets, including Marlon James, Kei Miller and Tanya Shirley, about their work and the picture they reveal of their country.
Elisha Efua Bartels talks to Jamaican novelists and poets including Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize, Tanya Shirley, Kei Miller, winner of the 2014 Forward Prize for poetry, and Millicent Graham about their work, and what it reveals to both Jamaicans and outsiders about their country.
Featured readings:
Tanya Shirley - Sunday Drive Out and The People are Deading from 'The Merchant of Feathers', Peepal Tree Press
Marlon James - 'The Book of Night Women', Riverhead Books
Millicent Graham - The Yard, from 'The Way Home', Peepal Tree Press
Kei Miller - Place Name: Me-No-Sen-You-No-Come; What the Mapmaker Ought to Know; Poem xviii; When Considering the Long, Long Journey of 28,000 Rubber Ducks, from 'The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion', Carcanet.