Arts for the 21st Century

Esther Phillips

Esther Phillips

Esther Phillips has been the editor of Bim: Arts for the 21st Century since 2007. She is the author of La Montée, When Ground Doves Fly, The Stone Gatherer, Leaving Atlantis, Witness in Stone, and is currently working on her new collection, Plantation, which focuses on the experiences of enslaved African women brought to the Caribbean during the transatlantic slave Trade. Esther is the founder of Writers Ink Inc., co-producer of the CBC programme What’s That You’re Reading? as well as co-producer of the Bridgetown Literary Bus Tour. She is Poet Laureate of Barbados.

Imagining and Other Poems by C.M Harclyde Walcott

Enigmatic. Cryptic. C. M. Harclyde’s poetic structure is one that may best be described as minimalist: just the right amount of paint on the tip of the brush, followed by the deft stroke, so that nothing other than what is intended leaks past the precise feeling. But then, so much seems intended; more than is stated in Walcott’s select shading and the deliberate slant of his thought as expressed on the page