Imprinted Joanna Ezekiel

Imprinted Joanna Ezekiel'Imprinted' is a personal story and social history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean. It explores the places and spaces of such a cultural journey, during and after the colonial period, in particular in Dominica, the author's birthplace. Entwined within this critique is the story of the author's own reading history, from being a child reader devouring the library (Black Power heroes and romance fiction) of her

politics and sport: these stories provide insight into the changing values of Wales and the world

folklore and the fauna and flora of the region

In the longer section Murray the traveller takes the reader to Spain and North Africa

his life and legacy destroyed by the Nazis

from the cave racer snake to the Madagascan robber moth

From the heat of the school relay and his grandmother’s Kashmiri chai to the images of a young man kissing a city goodbye

A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh

part lyric

obscurely warm and deeply humane

There is no doubt about that

What St Ann’s did have was a great sense of community which was about to be lost along with a way of life that we would never see again

Ounsi el-Hage: Last stanzas of The Messenger with her Hair Long to the Springs