"Small and Invaluable"

Books from the Caribbean

Papillote Press is a small, independent publishing house specialising in books about Dominica and the wider Caribbean.

We publish a range of books, both fiction and non-fiction, which reflect the culture and literary heritage of the Caribbean.

Expanding Translation Routes in the Caribbean: Music, Memory, and the Sea in Alecia McKenzie’s “Marins désarmés/Unarmed Mariners” and Daniel Thaly’s “Looting Hummingbirds”

by Nathan H Dize · in African Diaspora, Archipelagic Francospheres, Caribbean · Reviewed by Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

"...While distinct in form and emphasis, both collections are bilingual, pairing each source text with a parallel translation... Both collections participate in expanding Caribbean translation routes, as their publishers – whose distribution networks extend across the region and beyond – foreground island-to-island literary exchanges and transoceanic circulation. Read the review here >