Fiction

dubbin poetry: the collected poems of d'bi.young anitafrika

The collection broaches a wide range of themes and theories including Anti-Black Racism, Biomythography, Black Feminist Thought, Childhood Sexual Trauma, Critical Race Theory, Depression, Dub Theatre, Emancipation, Gender and Sexuality, Homophobia, Jamaican Diaspora Experience, Love, the Maroons, Motherhood, Misogyny, Pan Africanism, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Traumatic Stress, Queer Theory, Social Change, Revolution, Self-Love, Self-Recovery, Spirituality, and Suicide.

blood.claat

blood.claat is a full-length one-woman play by d'bi.young.anitafrika, which is presented in both English and Spanish (sangre with translation by queen nzinga maxwell edwards. It tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Mudgu SanKofa, a girl in Kingston, Jamaica. Mudgu encounters her reggae-loving boyfriend, a machete-wielding stranger and her religious aunty as she bridges the gap between innocence and maturity.

Art on Black

d'bi.young anitafrika's first collection of poetry published by Women's Press in 2006.

Travelling to Find a Remedy

Translation into Fiction

The Conception of Winter

Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

She

She is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point of obsession. She sees a child as her salvation. Her fervour results in a false pregnancy and in her denial she forms […]

Fables from the Women's Quarters

Fables from the Women's Quarters marked Claire Harris's blazing 1984 entry into the literary world, winning a Commonwealth Prize for poetry in its year of publication. A tribute to the women who create the fabric of life, this book contains poems that have become classics.

Drawing Down a Daughter

Spanning a few days and several decades, Drawing Down a Daughter follows a woman-dreamer as she prepared to give birth. Speaking to her unborn daughter through journals, letters, stories, and eloquent imaginings, Harris's unnamed narrator calls up a distinctive cast of characters as she travels from the tropical warmth of the West Indies to Canada with […]

Dipped in Shadow

Claire Harris is one of Canada's most powerful poets. Dipped in Shadow shows her at her strongest: the book's five poems making hard-hitting statements about women and their children.