In Shell, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world, the nature of po...

Early in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandem...

The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the 'Windrush Generation'in 1950s' ...

Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can't carry it on her head like her older b...

Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literatur...

A young Black girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage, voluminous and boonoonoonous hair.

A novel infused with Jamaica yet connecting with anyone who engages with notions of family, love,...

Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The Pain Tree is Olive Senior at her very...

The Toronto author Olive Senior's Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerfully e...

colonialism, colonizing, magic realis, Jamaic, Kingston

The latest collection from Olive Senior, Jamaican Poet Laureate, collects her four books of poetr...

A historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Carib...