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      <image:title>Fiction - Kingston Noir</image:title>
      <image:caption>Man Book Prize winner Marlon James joins a list of accomplished writers in the Jamaican edition of Akashic's award-winning series set in intriguing cities. Each of the eleven original stories is set in its own district. Lambda Literary Award winner Thomas Glave sets his story in upscale Norbrook. Forward Prize winner Kei Miller sets his story in gritty August Town. In this eclective collection detectives, hit men, femme fatales and lost foreigners provide noir's needed familiars. Complex characterization, accurate language and a daring range of story structures taunt the genre with a dare. A Book of the Year selection by the UK's Spectator, Kingston Noir is what happens when Jamaica's leading writers look at Killsome with a peculiar combination of coldness and grace. Contributors: Chris Abani, Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes, Marcia Douglas, Christopher John Farley, Thomas Glave, Marlon James, Kei Miller, Patricia Powell, Leone Ross, Ian Thomson. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: “Kingston Noir subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . The collection amply rewards the reader with a rich interplay of geographies and themes that Channer imagined at the outset but which also echoes [Raymond] Chandler's observation of Los Angeles' noir milieu:  ‘The streets were dark with something more than night.‘” — Los Angeles Times “Kingston Noir goes darker and deeper than any before . . . the purest of noir, and the richest depictions of Jamaica ... Channer's own contribution, "The Monkey Man," takes the cake on depraved despair. All the stories share themes: societal complicity in evil, the empowerment of corruption, and the infinite hold of a certain type of fear.” — Huffington Post “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” — Publishers Weekly</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Man Book Prize winner Marlon James joins a list of accomplished writers in the Jamaican edition of Akashic's award-winning series set in intriguing cities. Each of the eleven original stories is set in its own district. Lambda Literary Award winner Thomas Glave sets his story in upscale Norbrook. Forward Prize winner Kei Miller sets his story in gritty August Town. In this eclective collection detectives, hit men, femme fatales and lost foreigners provide noir's needed familiars. Complex characterization, accurate language and a daring range of story structures taunt the genre with a dare. A Book of the Year selection by the UK's Spectator, Kingston Noir is what happens when Jamaica's leading writers look at Killsome with a peculiar combination of coldness and grace. Contributors: Chris Abani, Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes, Marcia Douglas, Christopher John Farley, Thomas Glave, Marlon James, Kei Miller, Patricia Powell, Leone Ross, Ian Thomson. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: “Kingston Noir subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . The collection amply rewards the reader with a rich interplay of geographies and themes that Channer imagined at the outset but which also echoes [Raymond] Chandler's observation of Los Angeles' noir milieu:  ‘The streets were dark with something more than night.‘” — Los Angeles Times “Kingston Noir goes darker and deeper than any before . . . the purest of noir, and the richest depictions of Jamaica ... Channer's own contribution, "The Monkey Man," takes the cake on depraved despair. All the stories share themes: societal complicity in evil, the empowerment of corruption, and the infinite hold of a certain type of fear.” — Huffington Post “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” — Publishers Weekly</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of equal parts Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos — a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica — it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. But Estrella is no victim. Neither is she an ordinary child. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race, and social class, she takes the villagers’ rejection as a chance to change her life. The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a deftly written story that swims against the tide of cynicism that has come to dominate the best American fiction. Its propulsive plot is driven by a heroine too naive to back down and too smart to swap hope for disillusion as a central belief. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: “Estrella Roselyn Maria Eugenia Thompson, the heroine of the short, beautiful novella The Girl With the Golden Shoes, is one of those characters who steal your heart. It seems not exactly correct to call her a character, however. She feels too real, too genuine.” — Washington Post Book World “The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a nearly perfect moral fable … Colin Channer is clearly in the business of helping to make great literature.” — Russell Banks, author of The Darling and Continental Drift “This is a jewel of a book. Channer’s language is dancing and juicy, his humor incisive, his vision penetrating, and his hero, nicknamed Pepper for her stinging retorts, is magnificent.” — Booklist (starred review) “Jamaican author Colin Channer has been called a ‘reggae writer’ and even the Bob Marley of Jamaican literature … He puts the reggae aesthetic to good use in the book, telling the very gritty story of a lone Caribbean girl forced to grow up quickly on a fictional island similar to colonial Jamaica. His fable-like writing has drawn comparisons to writers such as Gabriel García Márquez.” — Minneapolis Star-Tribune</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction - Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop</image:title>
      <image:caption>Reggae’s rebel spirit blazes in this hot selection of short fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop. Set in the Caribbean and the USA, the stories sweep across a range of moods and genres to create a narrative LP of fascinating voices. From the old lady who gives a “how to” speech on beating children, to the schizophrenic singer who thinks he’s Bob Marley, to the hotel maid who gets a sexual offer that she can’t refuse, the diverse mix of characters are linked by the fundamental principle that all clichéd conventions must be shouted off the page. In the proudly odd tradition of Jamaican music, the selections seek to entertain while asking daring questions that provoke new ideas into being. Contributors: Colin Channer, Marlon James, Elizabeth Nunez, Kwame Dawes, Kaylie Jones, Geoffrey Philp, Rudolph Wallace, Konrad Kirlew, Alwin Bully, A-dziko Simba, and Sharon Leach. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: "The story comes at you with hurricane force and an irresistible title, ‘How to Beat a Child the Right and Proper Way.’ It is the creation of the Jamaican writer Colin Channer, who is also the editor of Iron Balloons, an anthology of a new kind of Jamaican writing… ‘The Right and Proper Way’ is a big breath of a piece, 54 pages long, and something of a tour de force…" — New York Times "The ability to eloquently delineate a particular experience—Caribbean life—accounts in large part for the significance and success of Iron Balloons … For Channer the emphasis is always on culture and quality—Iron Balloons is living proof." — Toronto Star (Canada) "The pick of the collection is Channer’s own contribution. ‘How to Beat a Child the Right and Proper Way’ is a hilariously digressive monologue delivered by a Jamaican woman to a class of mature students in the United States … At first she seems to be an interfering tyrant, but her moving tale unravels to show a sympathetic, contradictory person." — Times Literary Supplement (UK)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction - Passing Through</image:title>
      <image:caption>Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, these sexy, witty stories set on an imagined West Indian island trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that shock, illuminate, and reveal. From the American photographer who finds her world disturbed by new forms of love and lust, to a charismatic priest confronted by the earthly perks of fame and stardom, the diverse mix of characters are united by the universal search for love and understanding — a challenge on an island simmering with issues of politics, power, and race. Each story shines against its own tableau — World War II, the rise of Fidel Castro, Mt. Pelée devastating Martinique, import-export trading, Bob Marley in the days before his music echoed all around the world. As men and women fall in love, marry and remarry, face moral conflicts and new identities, Soufrière the volcano sees it all. From plantation days to the roots of revolution, it bears simmering witness to the century that engulfs this tiny island of eternal humor, passion, and allure. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKS-A-MILLION PRAISE: “Set on the fictional San Carlos, 'an island fascinated by the subtleties of blood,' this imaginative collection chronicles 100 years in the life of a community of interrelated characters … Channer is a gifted storyteller. He marshals the weighty themes of love, sex, race, class and progress into an epic and vibrant narrative.” — Washington Post “A splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers.  These tales are masterful distillations that teem with humor, with passion, with hope.  Channer’s compassion never fails to amaze.” — Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “Colin Channer is a wonderfully funny, piercing, crafty and compassionate writer, and Passing Through is a remarkable literary achievement. The stories bring with them the keen thrill of having discovered a truly fresh, original voice.” — Dan Chaon, author of Stay Awake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Set primarily in New York, London and Jamaica, Waiting In Vain is a bop along the edge of genre writing by a storyteller who takes reggae seriously as a literary mode. This national bestselling novel and Critic's Choice Selection of the Washington Post is in turns romantic, political, spiritual, absurd, erotic and tragic — family drama, love story, comedy, mystery, and lyric cross-dressing as prose. The story is simple: two writers with Jamaican backgrounds, Adrian and Sylvia, meet by chance at a gallery and each stuns the other in love. But there are issues: distance, present entanglements, past ones too, trust, class and the downward spiral of Ian, their mutual friend. Holding coherence is a classic third person that partakes in give and take with dialogue pitched specific to the area code. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKS-A-MILLION PRAISE: “The love story is interesting, but not the most compelling element of the novel: What is most intriguing is the assurance of the voice, the strength of characterization and the clear redefinition of the Caribbean novel — in which the discourses of post-colonialism have been usurped by the creative assurance of reggae’s aesthetic — a quintessentially modern aesthetic that has finally found the kind of dialogue between popular music and art that we have not seen in a long time.” — Washington Post Book World  “Channer’s prose is infused with serious Caribbean lilt — the patois is perfectly rendered — and heavy, heavy love vibes. Vain is what happens when a gifted writer decides to get romantic.” — Time Out New York “Waiting In Vain is a vividly sophisticated story of love and deep desire set in lush Jamaica, London’s gritty Brixton, and frenetic New York.” — Philadelphia Inquirer</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Poetry - Console</image:title>
      <image:caption>The second collection by "one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean" (The Globe and Mail). Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet’s childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem’s meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of “the walk,” Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out. — Includes 8 black-and-white photographs — BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | MACMILLAN PRAISE: “Channer (Providential) blends haunting lyricism, photography, and Jamaican patois into a potent combination that captures the geography of memory from the Caribbean to Senegal to New England . . . Sensory details startle with their physicality and immediacy . . . These intricate poems render the depths of memory in refreshingly original language.” —Publishers Weekly   “In true poetry, language is the spell, the hex, that changes us as we say it aloud. And Colin Channer is here to remind us that no matter the century or the crisis, the spell, indeed, holds true.” —Ilya Kaminsky, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of Deaf Republic   “Colin Channer’s new poems leap from the page. Their musicality is powerfully insistent, pulsing through every poem. Their diction is rich, tactile, nuanced, complex. The range of reference in the poems is extraordinary; the poet speaks of Walt Whitman and reggae singer-songwriter Burning Spear in the same breath. Channer writes of hurricanes in a hurricane of language. This Jamaican voice is also a world voice. Welcome to Colin Channer’s world.” —Martín Espada, author of Vivas to Those Who Have Failed “What rich splendor these pages reveal. What vision and wisdom and grace. This new book from Colin Channer has expanded my heart and my mind, offering vivid and necessary ways of seeing, hearing, and understanding the world.” —Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden   “The genius of Colin Channer’s Console is its profound sense of sound. Console is a soundscape, a mixing board of geographical and sensual landscapes, its various vocal languages musically charged to the utmost emotional effect. “All is fluid as I am collapsing // love and distance,” the poet says, “Who am I out of/within //this scene of benediction?”—quick-changing where the music takes him, a music “mystic with soul” that knows its “ginnal roots of myth,” a mix that is comedic, remixing history, “as if to match the age’s flares and fringes.” Of the many superlatives one might use to describe Console—astonishing, powerful, brilliant—none quite suffices. Console is poetry at poetry’s best.” —Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity   “There is music everywhere in Colin Channer’s new collection. Mixing, erasure, echo—and melody. Poems driven by the sounds of language, the ways in which words are aerated and released to jam on themselves. I felt the good karma of Derek Walcott and Bob Marley residing as spirits in these pages. Channer’s linguistic world translates so quickly into a stubborn physicalness—this air, this place, this consciousness. He has deeply inhabited so many disparate worlds, the new and the old, with the rhythms of something timeless, honoring what has passed and the yet to come. Lines that pound with a Caribbean heartbeat. By book’s end, Channer’s vision of his world and ours is . . . consoling.” —Daniel Halpern, author of Something Shining   “Transcendentally savvy, Colin Channer’s Console turns nostalgia on its head. These poems are cosmopolitan and primal as if all the continents were one again, the music of an oceanic mind. The poet’s language is a pulpit for his otherworldly calling, innovative and elevating, personal yet wholly of our time.” —Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Digest</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The second collection by "one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean" (The Globe and Mail). Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet’s childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem’s meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of “the walk,” Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out. — Includes 8 black-and-white photographs — BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | MACMILLAN PRAISE: “Channer (Providential) blends haunting lyricism, photography, and Jamaican patois into a potent combination that captures the geography of memory from the Caribbean to Senegal to New England . . . Sensory details startle with their physicality and immediacy . . . These intricate poems render the depths of memory in refreshingly original language.” —Publishers Weekly   “In true poetry, language is the spell, the hex, that changes us as we say it aloud. And Colin Channer is here to remind us that no matter the century or the crisis, the spell, indeed, holds true.” —Ilya Kaminsky, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of Deaf Republic   “Colin Channer’s new poems leap from the page. Their musicality is powerfully insistent, pulsing through every poem. Their diction is rich, tactile, nuanced, complex. The range of reference in the poems is extraordinary; the poet speaks of Walt Whitman and reggae singer-songwriter Burning Spear in the same breath. Channer writes of hurricanes in a hurricane of language. This Jamaican voice is also a world voice. Welcome to Colin Channer’s world.” —Martín Espada, author of Vivas to Those Who Have Failed “What rich splendor these pages reveal. What vision and wisdom and grace. This new book from Colin Channer has expanded my heart and my mind, offering vivid and necessary ways of seeing, hearing, and understanding the world.” —Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden   “The genius of Colin Channer’s Console is its profound sense of sound. Console is a soundscape, a mixing board of geographical and sensual landscapes, its various vocal languages musically charged to the utmost emotional effect. “All is fluid as I am collapsing // love and distance,” the poet says, “Who am I out of/within //this scene of benediction?”—quick-changing where the music takes him, a music “mystic with soul” that knows its “ginnal roots of myth,” a mix that is comedic, remixing history, “as if to match the age’s flares and fringes.” Of the many superlatives one might use to describe Console—astonishing, powerful, brilliant—none quite suffices. Console is poetry at poetry’s best.” —Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity   “There is music everywhere in Colin Channer’s new collection. Mixing, erasure, echo—and melody. Poems driven by the sounds of language, the ways in which words are aerated and released to jam on themselves. I felt the good karma of Derek Walcott and Bob Marley residing as spirits in these pages. Channer’s linguistic world translates so quickly into a stubborn physicalness—this air, this place, this consciousness. He has deeply inhabited so many disparate worlds, the new and the old, with the rhythms of something timeless, honoring what has passed and the yet to come. Lines that pound with a Caribbean heartbeat. By book’s end, Channer’s vision of his world and ours is . . . consoling.” —Daniel Halpern, author of Something Shining   “Transcendentally savvy, Colin Channer’s Console turns nostalgia on its head. These poems are cosmopolitan and primal as if all the continents were one again, the music of an oceanic mind. The poet’s language is a pulpit for his otherworldly calling, innovative and elevating, personal yet wholly of our time.” —Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Digest</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Channer’s debut poetry collection achieves an intimate and lyric meditation on family, policing, loss, and violence, but the work is enlivened by humor, tenderness, and the rich possibilities that come from honest reflection. Not since Claude McKay’s Constab Ballads of 1912 has a writer attempted to tackle the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. Now, over a century later, Channer draws on his own knowledge of Jamaican culture, on his complex relationship with his father (a Jamaican policeman), and frames these poems within the constantly humane principles of Rasta and reggae. The poems within Providential manage to turn the intricate relationships between a man and his father, a man and his mother, and man and his country, and a man and his children into something akin to grace. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: “Channer has written a fine set of poems that, like classical myth, start with the search for the lost father and end with the found son, the poet in the process replacing the lost father with a found self.” — Russell Banks, author of Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter A dexterous, ambitious collection that delivers enough acoustic acrobatics to keep readers transfixed ’till the starlings sing out.'” — Booklist Lush lists and light-footedness and keen word choices all restore a limb to our comprehension of colonial trauma and make this one of the most lucid and telling poetry books of this exact time.” — Eileen Myles, author of Snowflake  “The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss, and recovery in the wake of colonialism.” — O, the Oprah Magazine</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Poetry - So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival</image:title>
      <image:caption>With contributors such as Derek Walcott, Valzyna Mort, Robert Pinsky, Elizabeth Alexander, Michael Ondaatje, Louis Simpson, Gabeeba Baderoon and Meena Alexander, So Much Things to Say is a reminder of contemporary poetry's range and bounty. Published to mark the 10th anniversary of Jamaica's Calabash International Literary Festival, the anthology gathers offerings from the diverse list of poets who shared their work with thousands of locals and visitors in the fishing village of Treasure Beach from 2001 through 2010. The collection's quality reflects the festival's deep interest in connecting the planet's writers and listeners on equally exciting terms. Coeditors Kwame Dawes and Colin Channer, who started the whimsical not for profit festival with film producer Justine Henzell, arrange the poems not by rank, alphabetical order, or stature, but by size. How do you take your poems—small, medium, large or extra large? Contributors: Li-Young Lee, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Terese Svoboda, Elizabeth Alexander, Gabeeba Baderoon, Gregory Pardlo, Martin Espada, Terrance Hayes, Valzyna Mort, Sonia Sanchez, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Staceyann Chin and more. BUY: AMAZON | B&amp;N | BOOKSHOP | BOOKS-A-MILLION | AKASHIC PRAISE: “So Much Things to Say, an anthology of poems read at the festival over its first decade, is a who’s who of international contemporary poetry.” — Daily Beast “American readers who expect to find a distilled representation of what is currently being written in the Caribbean island will instead find an array of voices, circling the same geographical place but interested in a variety of forms and styles.” — poets.org “Calabash is a serious literary festival with serious literary merits. It combines this with good humor and merriment.” — Times Literary Supplement (UK) “A mini-Woodstock on the Caribbean ... a world-class Caribbean literary festival.” — New York Times</image:caption>
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