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#ReadCaribbean - every day, in every language. 🙂 #worldbookday

#books #writing #reading #stories #caribbean #jamaica #translation #languages #translators #writers #readers #writingcommunity #readingcommunity by @aleciamck

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

En librairie le 12 mars. In bookshops from March 12.

Merci de tout cœur à un éditeur formidable; aux artistes talentueuses JDC et Jaemin; aux traductrices et aux profs qui nous ont soutenus; à ma famille; à mes amis; aux librairies & aux bibliothèques; aux lecteurs / lectrices. 💕

A quick story:
Way back in college, I printed up a batch of poems, stapled them together, and titled the collection “Poems and Other Crimes”. My art teacher, Mr Ishmael, generously did a sketch for the cover, and kind-hearted friends and supportive profs bought copies. People wished me “luck” in the arts. And the matter was never mentioned again up to graduation.

Still, here we are once more, with poems that came unbidden - this time focusing on history, memory, ports, the sea, crossings, motherhood, childhood, migration, resistance, “redemption” songs - in a new and expanded bilingual (French-English) collection.

This follows the 2024 English-Portuguese volume of UNARMED MARINERS / MARINHEIROS DESARMADOS (part of my work as a 2023 selected artist in the MANIFEST project), translated by H. Lopes, with cover art by JDC and Jaemin.

Part 1 speaks of the sea / la mer.
Part 2 (new) looks at life-travels with a mother / la mère.

Official launch on March 12 in Paris @ beautiful Librairie Calypso. Sincere appreciation to @fabdezab and team for all the work on the publication.

Pre-orders here:
https://atlantiquesdechaines.com

#writing #poetry #caraibe #readcaribbean #livres

@atlantiquesdechaines
@librairiecalypso by @aleciamck

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8 months ago

Not sure about the “home” bit.

#walking #city #citybreak #belgium by @aleciamck

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INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY

In 2017, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the “role of language professionals in connecting nations and fostering peace, understanding and development”, and declared Sept. 30 as International Translation Day.

This meant “an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals”; and, for writers, it’s a chance especially to say a big thank-you to literary translators.

Over the years, it’s been inspiring to work with truly amazing translators, alongside trailblazing indie publishers, talented artists, and multilingual family members and friends. The photos show some of the fruits of this work.

So, mèsi onpil, merci beaucoup, muchas gracias, 非常感谢, grazie mille, Vielen Dank, muito obrigada, mörg þakkir, wel bedankt, tenk you …
& Happy International Translation Day on Sept. 30. Peace.

#translation #translators #books #livres #internationaltranslationday by @aleciamck

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16 days ago

Well, no one painted apples or onions (or card players) quite like Paul Cézanne.

And yes, it’s the season of big exhibitions.

“CEZANNE ET NOUS” runs from September 23 to January 17 (2027) @le_grand_palais, and the show puts his work in dialogue with that of his contemporaries as well as with later artists whom he influenced.
Interesting concept, as usual. We see the apple “reimagined”, for instance, in a “monumental still life” by pop artist Tom Wesselmann (slide 6), among other reinterpretations.

Of course, there are also memorable landscapes and portraits, not just still lifes.

Educational and visually engaging. (And the apple juice offered, coincidentally, at the start was quite refreshing.)

Pictured works by Paul Cézanne: Pommes et biscuits (1880); Fruits, serviette et boîte à lait (ca 1880); Vase paillé, sucrier et pommes (bet. 1890 & 1894); Nature morte au tiroir ouvert (bet. 1877 & 1879); Nature morte aux oignons (bet. 1896 & 1898); Les Joueurs des cartes (1893 & 1896). Tom Wesselmann: Still Life #29 (1963).

#art #artists #arthistory #CezanneEtNous by @aleciamck

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21 days ago

Great to see the exhibition “KERRY JAMES MARSHALL: THE HISTORIES” @museedartmodernedeparis and to speak with the artist and with curator @markgodfrey1973.

The show runs from 18 Sept. 2026 to 24 Jan. 2027 in Paris, after its huge success in London @royalacademyarts, and later in Zurich @kunsthauszuerich.

(Found out from KJM that he spent time in Jamaica, working as production designer on the acclaimed film “Sankofa”, which was shot in Ghana and Jamaica, directed by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. The experience on this and other movies also influenced his painting.)

A must-see exhibition. Article soon.

* Works by Kerry James Marshall pictured in the post include: Voyager (1972); Souvenir II (1997); Untitled (Painter) (2008); Wake / Gulf Stream (2003).

#art #artists #culture #history #arthistory by @aleciamck

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25 days ago

Looking forward to reading this when it comes out in a couple of months:

Smaddification
Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica
by Amanda Michelle Reid
@dukeuniversitypress

#books #caribbean #reading #dance #culture @ndtcjamaica by @aleciamck

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a month ago

Seen on the walk.

#flowers #fleurs #bloemen #flores

#Jardin des poètes. by @aleciamck

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Cinq années après leur lancement, les éditions Atlantiques Déchaînés ouvrent un nouveau chapitre. Dans un contexte de fragilité sans précédent de la chaîne du livre, de concentration extrême et de menace sur la bibliodiversité, nous avons plus que jamais le désir de faire entendre les voix critiques et artistiques de la Caraïbe-Monde.
Alors que la planète brûle, que les politiques impériales, coloniales, xénophobes et sexistes continuent de réduire à néant les espoirs et les projets de libération, Atlantiques Déchaînés veut incarner un lieu politique et poétique où la Grande Caraïbe cesse d’être un fantasme et un remède factice à la névrose occidentale pour devenir un espace depuis lequel et avec lequel s’énoncent d’autres manières de dire l’histoire et où se s’élaborent d’autres futurs désirables.
Ce lieu se construira autant par la publication de textes politiques, de travaux scientifiques et d’analyses critiques que par l’écho donné à une littérature marronnant loin des mises au pas et des bonnes manières. Aucune limite de langues, aucune limite de genres, aucune limite d’époques : nous entendons aussi bien rééditer les monuments littéraires de notre patrimoine, qu’accompagner les voix d’aujourd’hui et faire se croiser toutes les langues de notre région (anglais, kréyòl, espagnol, français, portugais brésilien...)
Pour concrétiser cet Acte II, notre maison devient progressivement une plateforme collective dotée d’un comité littéraire qui rassemble des auteur·ices et activistes culturel·les de la grande région et de ses diasporas. Ce comité incarne la pluralité des regards que nous portons et accompagnera dorénavant les orientations de notre maison installée en Guadeloupe.
Nous espérons que vous serez à nos côtés et que vous soutiendrez notre désir de reprendre la parole et le rêve.

Achetez nos livres, faites-les connaître autour de vous ! Soutenez l’édition caribéenne indépendante !

De nombreux évènements sont à venir.
Suivez l’actualité de la maison. taken in Cousiniere Grosse Roche by @aleciamck

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Women in Translation Month will end soon… but let’s read books in translation all year round.

#books #reading #translation #caribbean #world @larche_editeur by @aleciamck

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2 months ago

“Eclipsing.”

#eclipse by @aleciamck

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