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The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life. We hear from poor folk making the best of past hardships ("Coal"); rich folk plotting future selfishness …
Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
"This wonderful anthology of fresh voices from the Caribbean...includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The …
Dying to Better Themselves
The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the “Windrush Generation” in 1950’s England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier …
Working Miracles
Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society. This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study …
Summer Lightning & Other Stories
Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy.
Jamaica's Forgotten Prime Minister - Donald Sangster
The Pain Tree
Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The Pain Tree is Olive Senior at her very best, unforgettable short stories set in Jamaica and Canada, now available in this …
Hurricane Watch
Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 by the League of Canadian PoetsHurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first …
Anna Carries Water
Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can't carry it on her head like her older brothers and sisters can. In this charming and poetic family story set in Jamaica, …
Hurricane Watch
Longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets. Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first …
Pandemic Poems
Early in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandemic Poems on social media. The project was a way of bearing witness to the …