Looking Back at 2020

Wow! After the launch of Guabancex in February 2020, who would have known how everything would change. But a lot of great things happened too. So grateful for all the events I was still able to take part in, those who read and reviewed Guabancex and the words that made their way into the world:

• Guabancex shortlisted for Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers’ Awards (Dec)
• Poem Doh Let Me Be Lonely published in PREE magazine (Nov)
• Reading of Weather Conditions, one of the 20 poems selected from across the world, for The Poetry Archive World View 2020 archive (Nov)
• Miami Book Fair – Maria, Maria: Hurricane Stories discussion (registration required to play) (Nov)
• Poems published in BIM magazine Salt-Free Diet and Cut(ting) Act(ion) (Nov)
• Caribbean Riddims Radio promotion of Guabancex, for Miami Book Fair (Nov)
• Video in collaboration with the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation and Miami Book Fair, as part of Dranoff’s resources for teachers and students for their Piano Slam program (Nov)
• My reading of Ajai Alai (starts at 16:20) on Poetry Spoken Here, Open Mic of the Air 7, episode #142 (Sep)
• The Strength of Islands panel discussion at the virtual NGC Bocas Lit Fest (Sep)
• I Belong To The House of Music panel session at the virtual Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (Sep)
• Interview by Kathy Casimir MacLean of the DASSSA organisation – Dominica Secondary Schools Supporters Association (Sep)
• Poem My Sister & I Are Picking Mangoes published in Jamaica Gleaner’s Poems In The Time Of COVID-19 series (July)
• My reading of Accent Stress (starts at 1:27:58) at The Caribbean Writer’s Diasporic event (July)
• My reading of Thank You in celebration of the first #CaribbeanLiteratureDay12July2020, organised by House of Nehesi Publishers (July)
• Review by St. Lucian writer John Robert Lee (April)
• Interview with Dominican writer and presenter Ian Jackson on his Rhythm and Rhyme show (April)
• Culture In Action Interview with Raymond Lawrence, Dominica’s Chief Cultural Officer (March)
• Review by Antiguan writer Joanne C. Hillhouse (March)
• Review by Mat Riches (Sphinx) (March)