More Than A Literary Festival

Jeremy Poynting

Jeremy Poynting

Jeremy Poynting

Speaker

Jeremy Poynting is the founder of Peepal Tree Press based in the UK, the leading publisher of contemporary Caribbean writing. As a literary critic he has published widely in journals such as The New Voices and Journal of Commonwealth Literature on the topic of Indo-Caribbean literature. He is the recipient of the 2016 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

A Literary Friendship

Combining penetrating insight with frank self-awareness, A Literary Friendship — based on Rohlehr’s private notebooks and correspondence, and completed not long before his death in early 2023 — is at once memoir, literary analysis, and meditation on fame and obscurity. Publisher Jeremy Poynting introduces this important posthumous work, followed by a conversation among scholars and writers Aaron Kamugisha, Anu Lakhan, and Paula Morgan, chaired by Barbara Lalla.

Combining penetrating insight with frank self-awareness, A Literary Friendship — based on Rohlehr’s private notebooks and correspondence, and completed not long before his death in early 2023 — is at once memoir, literary analysis, and meditation on fame and obscurity. Publisher Jeremy Poynting introduces this important posthumous work, followed by a conversation among scholars and writers Aaron Kamugisha, Anu Lakhan, and Paula Morgan, chaired by Barbara Lalla.

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

Amazing Scenes: the Launch of the Long-Awaited Collection of Seepersad Naipaul’s Journalism

Originally published in the Trinidad Guardian in the 1930s and ‘40s and long unavailable to readers, Seepersad Naipaul’s articles and columns are vivid accounts of a boisterous colonial society, full of character and incident. A new selected edition gives this “lost” body or writing back to us. With an introduction by publisher Jeremy Poynting and conversation and readings by co-editors Kenneth Ramchand, Nivedita Misra, and Aaron Eastley.

Originally published in the Trinidad Guardian in the 1930s and ‘40s and long unavailable to readers, Seepersad Naipaul’s articles and columns are vivid accounts of a boisterous colonial society, full of character and incident. A new selected edition gives this “lost” body or writing back to us. With an introduction by publisher Jeremy Poynting and conversation and readings by co-editors Kenneth Ramchand, Nivedita Misra, and Aaron Eastley.

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