A couple of weeks ago I was invited to tell a story at a celebration for the mounting of a blue plaque in Hastings, for the only Queen of Haiti, Marie Louise Coidavid, first lady of the successful Haitian revolution. Campaigners had worked tirelessly both in England and Italy to ensure that her days of […]Read Post ›
A ball of flame
along she came
flying without the wind
Imagine it, you meet an old fella in a rum shop…
Episode 1 SHARK STORY (click to listen)
A Caribbean folklore play with the children of the diaspora in mind. The summer holidays were looming and my full quota of grandchildren were set to spend most of the weeks with me. So, I decided to try out my script on them. We were going to make a movie. We read the play together […]Read Post ›
Alex brought home a framed print of a painting of Caribbean stick fight. Three men with sticks and two women appealing or warning. It is titled The Cudgelling Fight (circa 1780). The artist, Gilda Thebaud Nassier. There was something reminiscent of the Agostino Brunias paintings, with its contrived tableau of stick fighters and spectators. I […]Read Post ›
It’s been months. Life was hectic and Birdie and Sy wouldn’t let me rest. But finally it’s complete, the final instalment in The Shadows trilogy. If you missed the first two parts you can find them here.But in the meantime… ‘Birdie and Sy’. Two lovers from similar London backgrounds (Caribbean immigrant grandparents). But Birdie lives […]Read Post ›
A spooky story for the festive season. It’s Part 2 of The Shadows Know, The Shadows Suite. The story of the man in the shadows continues.
Lamya Al-Mugheiry, singer, writer, poet. (1973 – 2009) A chance taken on an old CD. A CD buried in a charity shop, in a box of forgotten dreams. Memory lane to the 90s and early 2000s. Panning for gold in a barren stream and suddenly a nugget of real weight was revealed. A gift that […]Read Post ›
Many, many years ago I wrote a short story that was a good idea but a bad short story. And for many, many years Alex insisted I shouldn’t discard the idea. Then out of the blue, he introduced me to a brilliant young rock guitarist from Hastings, Adam Nash. Who would have thought a Caribbean […]Read Post ›
