The Jamaican poet Kei Miller, a former winner of the Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies, has won the prestigious Forward prize for the best poetry collection of 2014 for his “standout” book based on dialogue between a mapmaker striving to impose order on an unfamiliar land and a “Rasta-man” who queries his project.… read on ...

BRIDGET JONES TRAVEL AWARD 2015

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Award, the deadline for which is the 16th January 2015. The winner of the award will present their work at the 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, Birmingham, 1-3 July 2015.… read on ...

Thursday October 9, 2014

IAS Seminar: Jamaican Queer Writing – Professor Thomas Glave

6pm

FREE

Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol

In conjunction with the Bristol Poetry Institute’s annual reading by Professor Mervyn Morris (Poet Laureate of Jamaica), Professor Glave will visit the University of Bristol to read from his work.… read on ...