Arts for the 21st Century

Jennifer Rahim

Jennifer Rahim

Jennifer Rahim is a widely published poet, fiction writer and literary critic. She worked for many years as a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. Her fictional works include ‘Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction’ (2017), which won the 2018 overall OCM Bocas prize for Caribbean Literature, and ‘Songster and Other Stories’ (2007). Her poetry collection ‘Approaching Sabbaths’ (2009) was awarded a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010. ‘Redemption Rain: Poems’ was published in 2011 and Ground Level: Poems in 2014. ‘Sanctuaries of Invention’ (Peepal Tree Press, 2019) is her latest collection of poems.

For the Sake of Brighter Tomorrows: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné’s Doe Songs

Doe Songs (2018), Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné’s debut collection, is not a book to be read and digested in one sitting. The poems invite rumination and stretch the reader at all levels of heart and imagination—the surest signs that one has encountered a poet of significant power—and Boodoo-Fortuné has only just begun to exercise hers. The themes are familiar in that they largely belong to the broad canvas of concerns with the labyrinthine world familial relationships, mothers and mothering, daughters and parents, the intricacies of love, the relationship to place, the natural and spirit worlds. Their treatment, however, is far from commonplace. In fact, there is an unforced originality about this poet. 
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