Arts for the 21st Century

Nicola Hunte

Nicola Hunte

Nicola Hunte is a lecturer in the Literatures in English discipline at the Cave Hill campus of The University of the West Indies. With her interest in the creative arts, she serves as the editor of POUi, Cave Hill’s journal of creative writing as well as on the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment committee for the promotion of literary arts in Barbados.  She has published in the area of literary criticism on Caribbean and African American texts in Shibboleths, an online journal of comparative theory, and the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL). Her critical work has also touched on popular culture, specific to Barbadian expression on and offline. Her research focus includes the critical texts of Guyanese writer/theorist Wilson Harris and speculative fiction, particularly from the Caribbean and the African cultural diaspora.

Lyrical reverie on legacy, testimony and hope is at the heart of Esther Phillips’ Witness in Stone

Witness in Stone is reminiscent of intricately wrought but imposing stone structure, even as it testifies to the apparently commonplace -a young man on a bicycle, a playful encounter with a grandchild, a walk along a country road at dawn, all rendered in a manner that gives them shape and heft. Reading this collection exemplifies why Esther Phillips is Barbados’s Poet Laureate.
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