Sun, Sky, Sea And Sometimes Mud!

Donna Bailey Nurse interviews Joan Lavern Marshall Wilkinson to discuss the release of her new book of poetry, Sun, Sky, Sea and Sometimes Mud!

 

BEYOND THE BLUE BY ANDREA MACPHERSON

Set in Dundee in 1918, Beyond the Blue tells the story a family of four women struggling to make ends meet during the final months of the First World War. Like most women in the Scottish city, their lives are marked by the absence of able-bodied men and decent opportunities.

 

David Anthony Durham’s Black Cowboys Re-Mythologize the Wild West

Even though black men comprised about a third of all cowboys, established history and popular culture have deleted them from the story. David Anthony Durham's novel Gabriel's Story, the tale of a young black man who comes of age in the American West during the 1870s, contradicts this brazen lie.