News > Special Poui reading on Feb. 22
Published February 14, 2008

Multiple-award winning author Professor emeritus Mark McWatt will join other writers in a special reading of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, when the eight issue of that journal is launched on Friday, February 22 at 5 p.m.

The launch which will be followed by a reception takes place at the Verandah beside the 3Ws Oval. Organisers have issued a special invitation to all writers and lovers of poetry and fiction.

Poui has long since established itself as an exciting annual journal showcasing the newest in Caribbean creative writing from across the region. Georgetown-based arts commentator, Al Creighton, in a weekly column in the Stabroek News in 2007, commented that ‘the best pieces in the collection define Poui 7, lifting it to its place as a journal of high quality’ and showing that it has come of age as a regional literary journal.

Locally-based writers featured in the most recent issue include McWatt, Nick Whittle, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Sarah Venable, Esther Phillips, Deanne Kennedy and Deborah Callender.
 
Poui’s editors, Jane Bryce, Simmons-McDonald and McWatt have recently been joined by Mark Jason Welch, a poet who won the Irving Burgie Award for Excellence in Literary and Creative Arts in 2007, and first prize in this year’s Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award competition.

Writers who have appeared in Poui include Velma Pollard, Lorna Goodison, Erna Brodber, Grace Nichols, Olive Senior, Kendel Hippolyte, Merle Collins, Winston Farrell, Dana Gilkes, Robert Sandiford, Philip Nanton and many others.

 

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