Thanks to the organizers of “Jamaica House” at #PARIS2024 and to all the visitors / readers from different countries. Great to discuss #Caribbean #books, #stories, #sport, #culture. Until next time. #reading #writing

This week is the ten year anniversary of The Butterfly Hotel. I was mentored through this book by the great Paul Farley. any case there would be no A Portable Paradise without it. So this week I’ll be sharing some poems from the book. #mentors #decades #poems #thebutterflyhotel

guardian.co.tt/article/writin… Dear Sir Vidia, Happy Birthday. I still burn with shame when I recall our first meeting in April 1990. It made me agree with T.S. Eliot: "April is the cruellest month." As a starry-eyed rookie reporter for NBS Radio 610, I found myself at Piarco Airport on

This week is the ten year anniversary of The Butterfly Hotel. So this week I’ll be sharing some poems from the book in tribute to its birthday. Bigup Peepal Tree Press for constantly supporting the work from early on. #mentors #decades #poems #thebutterflyhotel

Author/activist/educator Shareefa Energy met with our CEO Jean-Claude Cournand to talk about our programmes, projects & initiatives, (including First Citizens National Poetry Slam) and explore ways to collaborate during her visit to TT and in the future. 📷 at Paper Based Bookshop at #TheWritersCentre

Lovely Review: libraryjournal.com? - Sturge Town: Poems # Library Journal. Matthew Shenoda Bernardine Evaristo Calabash Festival Justine Henzell UNL Department of English African Poetry Book Fund Sena D Peepal Tree Press John Robert Lee

A generous note: publishersweekly.com/9781324076315 Prairie Schooner Matthew Shenoda Justine Henzell Peepal Tree Press Saddiq Dzukogi Calabash Festival

Thank you Folks. Last year we made a profit and as a small Indy publisher this is pretty remarkable. We're not funded by grants. We live and die from sales. Thanks to everyone who buys our books. From Hetha, Lin, Leonora, Flora and Kevin. Marvellous. The Bookseller

Delighted to receive my copy of this. My chapter in it is on how Atlantic slavery profits were invested in Penrhyn Castle NT/YG Castell Penrhyn landed estate in North Wales Peepal Tree Press Corinne Fowler Raj Pal. Free Palestine ISWE

📢Calling book groups! 📚 We need volunteer judges for the SI Readers’ Choice Award: sign up & you could get an online author visit from 2022 winner Laura Fish to discuss winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still. Limited places. Sign up by 30 August. sileedsliteraryprize.com/calling-book-g…

Can’t wait to interview Monique Roffey this afternoon about her new book “Passiontide”. I loved “The Mermaid of Black Conch” so much I made it my book of the year - two years running! ⁦Edinburgh International Book Festival⁩ ⁦HarvillSecker⁩ ⁦Peepal Tree Press⁩ edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w…

Calling book groups! 📚 We need volunteer judges for the SI Readers’ Choice Award: sign up & get an online author visit from 2022 winner Laura Fish to discuss winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still. Limited places. Sign up by 30 August. Please RT! sileedsliteraryprize.com/calling-book-g…

Mahsuda Snaith (Mahsuda Snaith) discusses her contribution to the Colonial Countryside Project: youtu.be/gV62lOia7XI?si…

Ameena Gafoor died today. She was a Guyanese philanthropist, editor of The Arts Journal and founder in 2020 of the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and its Legacies. She will be deeply mourned and missed by everyone who knew her. newsroom.gy/2024/08/26/ame…

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Today, we celebrate 62 years of Independence Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 Here are some books I recommend that are written by Trinbagonian authors. Happy Independence Day, Trinidad and Tobago! 📚🇹🇹

Out now. Our anthology of commissioned creative writing & short historical commentaries from the #ColonialCountryside project about National Trust houses published by Peepal Tree Press. With a photo essay by Ingrid Pollard

Here is my review of ’The Inheritance' by Cauvery Madhavan in Country and Town House A bewitching novel which made me want to transpose myself to SW Ireland at once. It’s bursting with Irish charm and humour and deserves to fly out of the shops in its tens of thousands. HopeRoad