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2nd Annual Literary Festival in D/ca
Related to this project: Africa Poets Society

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The second annual Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair took place from August 7th to 9th, 2009 at the University of the West Indies
Open Campus.

This year’s festival was expected to be as exhilarating as the
first with a number of acclaimed international,
regional and local writers and poets but the crowd was a lot less than that of last year, according to festival coordinator

This year’s festival featured Earl Lovelace from Trinidad, Colin Channer of
Jamaica who founded the Calabash International Literary Festival, Kwame Dawes of
Ghana whose book Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius remains the most authoritative study
of the lyrics of Bob Marley, famous Bajan poet and entertainer, Aja, and Adrian
Augier, a top St. Lucian poet.

Also on the cards were Dominicans Marie Elena John, who was on island with
her producer Rudy Langlais to begin discussions on her up-coming film,
Unburnable, her most famous novel now being made into film.

As part of the activities for this year, The Nature Island Literary Festival also featured works from famous Dominican novelists, Jean Rhys who is best
known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Phyllis Alfrey who wrote the great
novel, The Orchid House, first published in 1953. Elma Napier’s novel “Black
and White Sands” about her life in Dominica in the 1940’s was also
featured.
A special feature of the weekend’s activities was a segment called
“Finding Pat”. This part of the weekend’s activities examined the lyrics
of some of the songs of our famous calypso song writer Pat Aaron and discussed
the genesis of these lyrics and the correlation between song and poetry.
This year’s festival highlighted an exciting weekend of readings,
storytelling, music, cultural performances and local cuisine. There were
writing competitions and various workshops on poetry and short story writing and
workshops for children. All events were free to the public.

August 17, 2009 | 11:26 AM Comments  0 comments

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