(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept. of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI, Barbados; 186 p)
As Poui celebrates the publication of its eleventh edition, the editors have found the best way to summarise the nature of its achievement and its place in contemporary Caribbean literature. They claim it as “the natural successor to the small magazines which nurtured the early growth of Caribbean writing – Bim, Kyk-over-al, The Beacon etc.” That is not a boast. It is true.
There has been a series of very important literary journals and like publications across the Caribbean that have significantly shaped West Indian literature and contributed to its growth. These include Trinidad and The Beacon, published in Port of Spain between 1929 and 1939 by CLR James and a long list of other progressive writers interested in social realism; Bim (1945) edited for