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2025 OCM Bocas Prize shortlists:Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica (Papillote Press)

Resistance Refuge Revival Shortlisted for 2025 OCM Bocas Prize Lennox Honychurch’s Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. “Resistance Refuge Revival: The...

First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey

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Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica – in my capacity as a journalist – to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK...

Seminar on Daniel Thaly
In this seminar, we celebrate the publication of Looting Hummingbirds: Selected Poems of Daniel Thaly (Papillote Press, 2026).
Vassar College – Grants in Action: Looting Hummingbirds
Professors Mark Andrews and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert publish, Looting Hummingbirds: Selected Poems of Daniel Thaly, Poet of Dominica
Looting Hummingbirds and Daniel Thaly
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly (1879-1950) of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets.
The Round Table Book Review of Lost and Found
“Digging so much deeper”....In reviewing Lost and Found, Debbie Ransome, former head of the BBC’s Caribbean Service (1997-2011) and now editor of the Commonwealth Round Table, writes:
Spiracle Interview with Polly Pattullo
Papillote Press's Polly Pattullo Spiracle Special Feature ‘A foot in both camps’