"Culture Matters"
Ku’wai 2018 is devoted to artists and writers. It features articles about Bernadette Persaud, Stephanie Correia, The Moving Circle of Artists, Desmond Alli. There are also blogs by Nikita Blair, Derwayne Wills and Sara Bharrat. Copies are available for purchase at Moray House Trust.
Author: Ian Mc Donald
Details: This is Ian Mc Donald’s fifth collection of poems, written over the past four years. A collection of poems that are ‘beguilingly simple and conceal their craft’ according to the introduction by Brendan de Caires. This collection is also the inaugural publication of Moray House Trust.
Date of publication: March 2012
Cost: G$1,000 or US$5.00
Editors: Ian Mc Donald / AJ Seymour
Details: A large assortment of back issues of Kyk-over-al are available for purchase. Kyk-over-al is a Guyanese literary magazine first published in 1945 and intermittently since then. The magazine has traditionally taken Guyanese poetry and literature as its main focus. Highlights include an issue in June 2000 dedicated to Martin Carter.
Author: Joseph G. Singh
Date of Publication: December 2011
Details: This is an account of the first two decades of the author’s life on Ogle Estate and Canal No. 1. A social history, this work is peppered with vignettes of real people and imbued with a ‘powerful sense of community’ according to Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine.
Cost: G$1,500 or US$7.50
