AN INVITATION - BOOK LAUNCH

An Invitation to the launch of a major anthology of West Indian writing on West Indian Cricket
The Bowling was Superfine

With readings by several of the writers represented in the collection, including Mark McWatt, Sir Hilary Beckles, Philip Nanton and Stewart Brown
At 7.00 pm on Monday March 26th
In the pavilion of the 3Ws ground on the UWI campus at Cave Hill
Refreshments will be served.
(Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a special discounted price for the launch of $50)
 
Press Release

Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald (Eds.)
The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket

Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the world outside. With poems, calypsos, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, cricket journalism and essays about cricket writing, the editors show cricket inhabiting all areas of the Caribbean imagination.

From its expression at the highest level on the global field of play, to the no less titanic struggles on the bumpier fields of the village or the sugar estate, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, those who transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 80s changed forever the nature of the game. Over both editors hovers the benign ghost of that great West Indian CLR James, and The Bowling Was Superfine is not least a worthy act of homage to the writer whose Beyond a Boundary first revealed the convergence of Caribbean being and cricket.

Writers represented in the anthology include Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Sam Selvon, C.L.R. James, Bruce St. John, Learie Constantine, Sylvia Wynter, Edgar Mittelholzer, Mark McWatt, Stanley Graves, Anthony Kellman, Paul Keens Douglas, Edward Baugh, Phillip Nanton and Michael Anthony
Stewart Brown is a poet and has edited of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.

Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

The book is 371 pp, regular price approx. Bdos $75. www.peepaltreepress.com