Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean (Hansib Publications), edited by Marsha Pearce, assembles six short stories by prizewinning T&T writers in response to the art of Edward Bowen. These new pieces, by Kevin Jared Hosein, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Millar, Amílcar Sanatan, Portia Subran and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, use ekphrasis to examine and comment on society. Emphasis is placed on how navigations of Caribbean “darkness” become not only possible, but preferable, when we deepen our understandings of the dark itself.
