Arts for the 21st Century

Linda M. Deane

Linda M. Deane

Linda M. Deane is a British-Barbadian writer, editor and storyteller. She is co-founder, with Robert Edison Sandiford, of the publishing and cultural entity ArtsEtc. Her writing for children and adults has earned her multiple Frank Collymore Literary Endowment awards and a Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts. Linda is a writing and learning guide known as The Summer Storyteller. Her most recent work can be found at Preelit.com, acalabash.com, therockretreat.com, and artsetcbarbados.com, and her debut poetry collection, Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative, is to be published later this year.

What? How?

Did they tick the box marked “Home” for “lay me beneath blue sky on forever overcrowded rock”? Or did they tick the one marked “Away” for “bury me where any old sky finds me”?

Sock Anxiety

But looka this thing for me, though. This child born and named for daybreak. This lithe wire testing her spark but wanting, still, at 17 to nuzzle her mother’s neck, be up onderneat’

Still There

Something else is new! For the very first time, we are introducing original musical compositions as part of the magazine's content. Readers will be entertained in this issue by a jazzy piece entitled 'Still There' its lyrics by Linda M. Deane, a regular contributor to BIM. Deane Days Music is the producer.


“Still There”

Copyright: Deane Days Music


Lyrics: Linda M. Deane

Composer & arranger: Susan Deane Beckles

Vocals: Casheda Dottin

All instruments & background vocals: Susan Deane Beckles

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