The West Indies

Books, Autumn issue (see COMMONWEALTH: GENERAL, Special Issues; contains, pp. 17-21, 'West Indian Creative Writing Since I968', L. James ; essay and select bibliography.

New Ships: Teacher's Guide (see Anthologies; contains, pp. 71-2, 'Anthologies and Collections of West Indian Poems', E. Baugh.

Wlorld Literature Written in English, 19 (see COMMONWEALTH: GENERAL, Journals); contains, pp. 23-44, 'A Bibliography of West Indian Fiction I900-I970', A. Boxill.

Caribbean Studies (see Journals); each issue includes 'Current Bibliography', covering whole Caribbean on an inter-disciplinary basis.

Journal of Commonwealth Literature, VI, 2; contains on pp. 103-110 the West Indian section, compiled by K. Ramchand and F. Durrant, of 'Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature I970'.

Alt, Daisy. Dedications on Turning Thirty, 32 pp. Model Printery, Kingstown, St. Vincent.

Bell, Vera. Ogog, 65 pp. Vantage Press, New York, $3.50.

Colleymore, Frank. Selected Poems, 67 pp. Coles Printery Ltd., Bridgetown, Barbados, $3.00.

Hendriks, A.L. Muet, 20 pp. Outposts Pblns., Walton-on-Thames, Surrey , paper, £0.30.

—— These Green Islands and Other Poems, 49 pp. Bolivar Press, Jamaica, paper.

McFarland, H.S. Trilogy: Poems, 81 pp. Vantage Press, New York, $2.95.

MacKenzie, Rhoda. Jamaica Lucina, 92 pp. William MacLellan, Glasgow, paper, £I.00.

McNeill, Anthony. Hello Ungod, 44 pp. Peaceweed Press, Baltimore.

Seymour, Arthur J. Black Song, 22 pp. Privately pbld., Georgetown, Guyana, $I.00.

— I, Anancy, 20 pp. Privately pbld., Georgetown, Guyana, $0.55.

Clarke, Austin C. When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks, viii + 152 pp., Anansi, Toronto; cloth, $7.50; paper, $2.75 ; short stories.

—— 'When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks', The Canadian Forum, LI, 609, pp. 21-2 (see CANADA, Journals), extract.

— 'Griff!', The Tamarack Review, 58, pp. 34-50 (see CANADA, Journals).

Harris, Wilson. The Age of the Rainmakers, 104 pp., Faber, £I.25; short stories.

Hutchinson, Lionel. One Touch of Nature, 318 pp. Collins, £I.75.

James, C.L.R. Minty Alley, 244 pp. New Beacon; cloth, £2.25; paper, £0.80; first published 1936, Secker & Warburg.

Lamming, George. Water with Berries, 249 pp. Longman Caribbean, £2.00; dated 1971, issued early 1972.

Mahabir, D.J. The Cutless Is not for Killing, 182 pp. Vantage, New York, $3.75.

Mittelholzer, Edgar. The Old Blood. Fawcett (Crest Books), New York, paper, $I.25; first published as Kaywana Blood 1958, Secker & Warburg .

Naipaul, V.S. In a Free State, 265 pp. Deutsch, £I.75.

—— The Mystic Masseur, 215 pp. H.E.B. (Caribbean Writers Series), paper, £0.50; first published 1957, Deutsch.

Nicole, Christopher. The Face of Evil, 256 pp. Hutchinson, £I.95.

Palmer, C. Everard. The Hummingbird People, 174 pp. Deutsch, £I.25.

—— Big Doc Bitteroot, 157 pp. Bobbs-Merrill, New York, $4.50; first published 1968, Deutsch.

Reid, V.S. Peter of Mount Ephraim, 140 pp. Jamaica Pblg. House, Kingston, Jamaica, paper, J$o.8o.

Rhys, Jean. Quartet, 186 pp. Harper & Row, New York, $4.95; first published as Postures 1928, Chatto & Windus.

Richards, N.H. The Twilight Hour, 217 pp. Vantage, New York, $4.95.

Selvon, Samuel. A Brighter Sun, 215 pp. Longman Caribbean, £I.50; first published 1952, Alan Wingate.

Stewart, John. Last Cool Days, 190 pp. Deutsch, £I.75.

Black World , May issue; contains, pp. 41-8, 'Caribbean Poetry: a Portfolio'.

Breaklight, ed. A. Salkey , 266 pp. Hamish Hamilton, £I.75.

Caribbean Voices: Combined Edition, ed. J. Figueroa , xvi + 228 pp. Evans, £2.50.

Jamaica Journal, V, 3 (see Journals); contains, pp. 31-96, 'Festival 7I'; verse, prose, art.

My Lovely Native Land, ed. A. J. and E. Seymour , illust., 13 8 pp. Longman, paper, £0.45.

New Sbips, ed. D. G. Wilson, ix + 78 pp., Savacou, Kingston, Jamaica; published with Teacher's Guide.

Savacou, 3 and 4 (Dec. 1970/March 1971) (see Journals); issue of 176 pp., devoted to annual anthology of contemporary writing.

Seven Jamaican Poets: An Anthology of Recent Poetry, ed. M. Morris , 58 pp. Bolivar Press, Kingston, Jamaica, paper, J$I.80.

Talk of the Tamarinds, ed. A. N. Forde , viii + 104 pp. Arnold, paper, £0.50.

West Indian Poetry, ed. K. Ramchand and C. Gray , vii + 133 pp. Longman Caribbean, £0.50.

Cleary, A.L. Jamaica Proverbs, illust., 62 pp. Brainbuster Pblns., Jamaica, paper.

Fraser, Fitzroy. 'Too Good to be Black', Présence Africaine, 77, pp. 177-90 (see AFRICA: GENERAL, Journals); personal experience of race prejudice.

King, Audvil et al. One Love, with Introduction by A. Salkey, 82 pp., Bogle-L'Ouverture Pblns., £0.62 1/2; prose and verse.

Manley, W. Norman. Manley and the New Jamaica, ed. R. Nettleford , xii + 393 pp. Longman Caribbean, paper, £2.75 ; speeches.

Reckord, Barry. Does Fidel Eat More than Your Father?, 191 pp. Deutsch, £2.I0; Caribbean attitudes to Cuba.

Salkey, Andrew. Havana Journal, 316 pp. Penguin, Harmondsworth, paper, £0.40.

Cahier d'un retour au pays natal/Keturn to My Native Land, Aime Cesaire, with Preface by A. Breton. Editions Présence Africaine, Paris, F.4.50; bilingual pocket edn.

Brathwaite, Edward L. 'The Concept of Form: A Study of Some Ancestral Elements in Brathwaite's Trilogy' , S.O. Asein , African Studies Association of the West Indies Bulletin, 4, pp. 9-38 (see AFRICA: GENERAL, Journals).

—— 'Islands', G. Rohlehr , Caribbean Studies, X, 4, pp. 173-202 (see Journals).

—— 'This Broken Ground', M. Morris , New World Quarterly , V, 3, pp. 14-26 (see Journals ).

Harris, Wilson. 'The Art of Extremity: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai', M. Gilkes , Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 3 and 4, pp. 83-90 (see Journals ).

—— 'The Writer as Alchemist: The Unifying Role of Imagination in the Novels of Wilson Harris', H. Maes-Jelinek , Language and Literature , I, 1, pp. 25-34 (English Institute, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark, D.Kr.I0.00).

Hearne, John. 'Voices under the Window: An Introduction to the Book', M. Morris , Jamaica Journal, V, 1, pp. 53-6 (see Journals).

James, C.L.R. 'Introduction', K. Ramchand in Minty Alley, pp. 5-15 (see Fiction , under James).

Lamming, George. 'The Making of a Writer: A Conversation with George Lamming', R. Sanders and I. Munro , Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 3 and 4, pp. 83-90.

—— 'The Theme of Exile in George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin' , I. Munro , W.L.W.E., 19, pp. 51-60 (see COMMONWEALTH: GENERAL, Journals).

—— 'Writing and Publishing in the West Indies', I. Munro et al., W.L.W.E. , 19, pp. 17-22; interview with Lamming.

—— 'Home from Exile: Lamming and the Colonial Structure', Ngugi wa Thiong'o , The Pan-Africanist , I ( African Studies Program Students, Northwestern U., Evanston, Ill., $I.00).

Naipaul, V.S. , 'Historicity and Homelessness in Naipaul', J. Noel , Caribbean Studies , XI, 3, pp. 83-7.

—— Review of In A Free State, A. Kazin , New York Review of Books, 30 Dec., pp. 3-4.

—— 'Introduction', P. Edwards and K. Ramchand , The Mystic Masseur, pp. vii-xvi (see Fiction, under Naipaul).

—— 'Without a Place', V.S. Naipaul in conversation with I. Hamilton, Times Literary Supplement, 30 July, pp. 897-8.

—— 'The Writer as Colonial', V.S. Naipaul interviewed by R. Evans, Transition , 40, pp. 56-62 (see WEST AFRICA, Journals).

Padmore, George. 'George Padmore as a Prototype of the Black Historian in the Age of Militancy' , T. Martin , Mazungumza, I, 2, pp. 35-42 (see AFRICA: GENERAL, Journals).

Reid, Victor S. 'History and the Novel: A Literary Critic's Approach', K. Ramchand , Savacou, 5, pp. 103-113.

—— 'Novel and History, Plot and Plantation', S. Winter , Savacou, 5, pp. 95-102 (see Journals).

Sadeek, S.M. 'A Small Indian Voice in Guyana', J. Poynting , JCL, VI, 2, pp. 152-4; reviews of 5 Sadeek books.

Scott, Dennis. 'The Poetry of Dennis Scott', A. McNeill , Jamaica Journal , V, 4, pp. 49-52.

Walcott, Derek. 'Dreamers and Slaves: The Ethos of Revolution in Derek Walcott and Leroi Jones' , L. Brown , Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 3 and 4, pp. 36-44.

—— 'Monkey Mountain', W. Kerr , New York Times, 2I March.

—— 'Waiting for the End', D. Donoghue , New York Review of Books, 6 May, p. 27; review of The Gulf.

—— 'Walcott's Mad Innocents', L. Coke , Savacou, 5, pp. 121-8.

'A Brief Account of West Indian Poetry I900-I970', E. Baugh , New Sbips: Teacher's Guide, pp. 53-70 (see Anthologies).

'A Type not Found in All Generations', E. Roach , Trinidad Guardian , I4 July, pp. 6-8; review of Savacou, 3 and 4.

'Calypso', Errol Hill , Jamaica Journal, V, 1, pp. 23-7 (see Journals).

'Calypso and Politics', G. Rohlehr , Moko (Trinidad), 29 Oct., pp. 8-9, 14-18.

'Some Problems of Assessment: A Look at New Expressions in the Arts of the Contemporary Caribbean', G. Rohlehr , Tapia (Trinidad), 29 Aug., pp. 11-14; also, Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 3 and 4, pp. 92-113 (see Journals ); answer to Roach's article, above.

'Some Views on Caribbean Voices, Vol. II, sel. John Figueroa', M. Morris and W. Kelly , Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 1, pp. 48-53; a review.

'The Myth of El Dorado in the Caribbean Novel', H. Maes-Jelinek , JCL, VI, 1, pp. 113-27.

'Walcott versus Brathwaite', P. Ismond , Caribbean Quarterly , XVII, 3 and 4, pp. 54-71.

'The West Indian Novel and Its Background, by Kenneth Ramchand', M. Gilkes , The Literary Half-Yearly, XII, 2, pp. 125-8 (see INDIA, Journals); a review.

'What Dictionary Should West Indians Use ?', R. Allsopp , JCL, VI, 2, pp. 133-43.

'West Indian Prose Fiction in the Sixties', E. Brathwaite , West Indies Chronicle, LXXXVI, July, pp. 298-301.

Bim , 52-53. The Editors, Woodville, Chelsea Rd., St. Michael, Barbados. Annual sub., WI$2.50; twice annually.

Caribbean Quarterly, XVII, 1-3 and 4. Dept. of Extramural Studies, U. of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Annual sub., J$2.00; quarterly.

Caribbean Studies, X, 4 and XI, 1-3. Institute of Caribbean Studies, U. of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras. Annual sub., US$4.00; quarterly.

Jamaica Journal, V, 1-4. Institute of Jamaica , 12-15 East St., Kingston, Jamaica. Annual sub., J$2.00; quarterly.

New World Quarterly, V, 3. New World Group, Box 22I, Kingston 7, Jamaica; irregular.

Savacou, 3 and 4, 5. The Editors, Box I70, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Annual sub., J$3.00.