Red Moon at Dawn Kay Carmichael

Red Moon at Dawn Kay CarmichaelIn Red Moon At Dawn, the shadow of empire stretches long over Mauritius. As World War II rages elsewhere, islanders face their own, related battle: a workers strike met with lethal colonial force. Framed through the voices of the spirited Valerie, a teenage activist, and quiet Anarka, a girl whose family labours under the harsh conditions of the sugar estate, and both coming of age under occupation, Red Moon At Dawn reveals the emotional cost of

The source of worth

His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions

Aaron Kent is a candid and nuanced chronicler of what it means to be working class in the twenty-first century

He was one of calypso’s most loved exponents

This period of state terrorism resulted in the disappearance of writers

Beyond the loss and devastation that such a natural disaster brings

hazy memories and unreliable witnesses make for a story in which perhaps is nothing as it seems…

his life as a writer in London

This book contains the winning and commended poems from the Verve Festival 2018 City Themed Poetry Competition judged by Luke Kennard

is dark-skinned

from virtual orphan in a dirt-poor

hypnotherapist and psychologist