Gorée: Point of DepartureA chance encounter at Kennedy Airport with her ex husband, Saliou Wade, takes Magdalene and their now adult daughter, Khadi, on a visit to him and his new family in Senegal. Magdalene is understandably nervous about the return, remembering the pain of the mutual cultural incomprehension she is a St Lucian that ended the marriage almost twenty years before; but Khadi refuses to go without her. In Senegal, whilst the now cosmopolitan Saliou appears to

"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene

vibrant and immensely accessible

Beyond composition

Nathalie Handal

and its ministers

She seems shy

and Adel Karasholi who writes in German – all of them highly accomplished and published poets

came across the stream twice to look into the garden

Excerpt from the novel Labyrinthe des sentiments

cultural production and comsumption in 50s America (Continuum)

Austin Clarke and Thomas Kinsella

translated by Dorothea Gruumlnzweig and Derk Wynand