WELL VERSED: Recently in Jamaica for this year's iteration of A Love Affair with Literature at UWI Mona, noted West Indian poet Kendel Hippolyte has just republished his seminal anthology, Night Vision (Peepal Tree Press). According to the publishers, the 80-page collection, replete with dramatic monologues, blues and rap poems, calls on Hippolyte's verbal mastery and critical insight to draw sharp focus upon a nation in flux, his beloved St. Lucia, incidentally the home of that Nobel-winning master lyricist Derek Walcott. "Hippolyte turns his vision upon the people, the land and the culture," Peepal Tree notes, "and finds a microcosm of the Caribbean in the 21st century."
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>> It's about time. Acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Booker Prize for 1989's The Remains of the Day, is set to publish The Buried Giant (Knopf), his first new work of full-length fiction in over a decade. Ishiguro's bestselling Never Let Me Go (2005) was adapted for a 2010 film version starring new Spider Man, Andrew Garfield and Carrie Mulligan (The Great Gatsby).
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