Black Rock Books

25/06/2024

The Annual(?) Haunt of World Book Souks is one again upon us so we keeping funny opening times.

23/06/2024

a poet buying Kamau!

23/06/2024

Going through the boxes! Just simply the best kind of buyer!

22/06/2024

How do you know a good bookshop?

20/06/2024

Trinidadians, or anyone else, what can you tell me about this book?

20/06/2024

Heads up!
Black Rock Books will be there! We will have books, books and books.
Looking forward to a quiet afternoon with book and other people.

11/06/2024

1 Volcano is an early take on Soufriere in Montserrat. Elizabethh Best - Barbed Wire - recently released Riffing about Survival among the Bearded Fig Trees of Ichirouganaim

2 Jenny Ann Lynch updated this collection (I forget when). Honor Forde Smith - Cousin Honnuh - put together the classic Lionheart Gal with the Sistren Collective. She continues struggling for a better Cribbean.

3 E A Markham - I hesitate to say from Montserrat but I don't know that everyone knows that. One small piece of a very large oeuvre. Sunday Blues - Paul Layne died in his early twenties in a car crash. Companion of Robert Lee and Denis Foster.

4. Nostalgia is a collection from 2010. Passover is a single sheet, folded with just one poem and a linocut illustration.

5 Saint-John P***e from Guadeloupe. Mervyn Morris is Mervyn Morris, everybody know him. This is the original 1976 edition, cover and illustrations by Lorna Goodison. Reprinted by Dangaroo Press 1998

6 Ras Moses is from Dominica. Mike Richards transformed into Aja.

7 Collection from Suriname, edited by Srinivasi. Alfred Clarke was born Trinidad `1912. The collection is from 1943. We been writing poetry before yesterday.

8 Jonathan Small committed su***de. He wrote this and Death of a Pineapple Salad. In Depts by Tony Kellman, with an introduction by Kamau.

9 and 10 Collections by kind, (mostly) elderly, (mostly) church-going ladies. These might well be their only ever publications.

Who knew I could talk so much?

09/06/2024

Read Caribben Month

We broke from school in May and spent the long days as children should: kicking ball, chasing girls and selling w**d.

05/06/2024

Continuing with Read I Don't See These Everyday Caribbean Month, none of these are massively rare or uncommon, still...
Julia Alvarez - Time of the Butterflies is seminal, and a well constructed tale.
Erna Brodber is Erna Brodber. Period. Jane and Louisa is worthy of any to be read list.
Valerie Belgrave was in the Sir George Williams U Computer Centre thing. Some of you, I'm sure, are too young to know about that but it created change. See Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir - The Fire This Time; and Dennis Forsythe - Let The Ni***rs Burn.
Delores Craig I don't know, nor Nel Crawford. Ask Nailah Imoja - she published Nel.

03/06/2024

continuing with Read Not Common Caribbean Month
not that Naipaul is all that scarce but he is here because while not the world most pleasant person Mr. Biwas is still a very very good book

Neville Dawes should probably be better known and Mendes is more of a politician but this is a seminal book

de Boissiere moved from Trinudad to Australia where he continued writing on Australian themes

03/06/2024

for Read Caribbean Month
a slight remake
Read Not Often Seen Caribbean Month

the things that walk uninvited into bookshops

29/05/2024

REMINDER - Tomorrow May 30 at Haymams Market at 6 pm!
With big screen to accommodate the interactive and performance aspects that Black Rock Books couldn't even begin to try to do.

23/05/2024

the next great event

is at Haymans Market where they have a big screen that can do justice to what is truly an interactive event

books on sale, author signing, q&a, sam coochie

18/05/2024

ever so often we sneak a minute from selling books to grow orchids

17/05/2024

12/05/2024

!!!
this brethren has qualified for an ongoing supply of books

his reward for rewarding booksellers for the good work he is convinced they do

02/05/2024

The books have arrived.

We rushed out and painted the doors a matching colour. No detail too small.

See you Saturday, May 4. From 3 to 6pm

30/04/2024

!!!!
Presenting... The Naniki Splash

Looking forward to seeing you. And thanks for being there!

28/04/2024

the freshly painted doors at Black Rock Books, first coat, still with painter's tape. Confirmed and unmitigated anti-monarchists, we call this colour People's Blue.

27/04/2024

just one more week - Saturday May 4 from 3 til 6 pm

a very enjoyable combination of good writing and respect for a people and their living

without descending into journalism or documentary

25/04/2024

One of the granddaughters is in this. Black Rock Books is selling tickets. Your support is very welcome. Please and thank you.

21/04/2024

preparing for May 4

the books have reached the first stop on the underwater railroad. Expected to reach stop #2 by this time next week. Our people are talking to their people.

18/04/2024

one corner of one table

17/04/2024

We still remember, almost with awe, Shabaka's vast kindness in playing so generously in our little space. We talk about it as the great event.

12/04/2024

next big thing at black rock books: May 4

she'll be there in person

have you read Buxton Spice? Tide Running? All Decent Animals?

11/04/2024

just back in - and the pen she signed one with

26/03/2024

at Black Rock Books
we sell books like they're still in style

21/03/2024

Follow this closely.

The young man walks in. He's from Poland. He chooses holiday locations by where the bookshops are. He's in BDS because of Black Rock Books [I swear. He said so.] He heads straight for the Caribbean literature and the Kamau titles. Because in Poland you can find only two articles on Kamau in Polish.

So are you teaching in Poland? Yes, but I'm teaching medicine.

I'm practically beginning to take these things in stride.

20/03/2024

This was Saturday at Black Rock Books. Na La and Nigel Lynch and Shabaka. I am so proud that a little not any where place like Black Rock Books was able to host this