Jacob Ross: Pynter Bender 1: intro, Caribbean writers, love, memory, women, history

The renowned Jacob Ross reading his long-awaited first novel, Pynter Bender (4th Estate/Harper Collins).

The only Caribbean nominee on the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize short list (Canada and Caribbean Best Book) www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprize/cwp/2009%20prize/20­09list/

www.jacobrossonline.com/The_Books/Pynter_Bender/Pynter_Reviews/pynter_reviews.ht­ml

Set in and around the cane fields of Grenada in the Carribean 'Pynter Bender' is about the conflict between the world of men and women, men who walk away from their families and from the cane fields and their women who forbear. It brilliantly describes the birth of a modern West Indian island and the shaping of its people as they struggle to shuck off the systems that have essentially kept them in slavery for centuries.

With him, writers from Peepal Tree Press with new books including Khadijah Ibrahiim reading from her poetry chapbook, Rootz Runnin - based on her childhood growing up in Leeds and Simon (symurai) Murray reading from Kill Yourself Now: True Confessions of an Advertising Genius (a novel as memoir detailing his time in the ad industry) plus Seni Seneviratnes gentle and accomplished poetic voice tracing her roots across oceans and centuries reading from her poetry collection Wild Cinnamon & Winter Skin.
Location: @ Borders Leeds 20 February 2009

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