Author: Monique Roffey

Cites

• Derek Walcott (1)
  • IN: Archipelago (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But islands can only exist If we have loved in them.
    FROM: Islands, (1962), Poem, Saint Lucia
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Archipelago (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.
    FROM: Moby Dick, (1851), Novel, US
• Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1)
  • IN: White Woman Green Bicycle (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Love for an island is the sternest passion; pulsing beyond the blood through roots and loam it overflows the boundary of bedrooms and courses past the fragile walls of home. Those nourished on the sap and the milk of beauty (born in its landsight) tremble like a tree at the first footfall of the dread usurper – a carpet-bagging mediocrity. Theirs is no mild attachment, but rapacious craving for a possession rude and whole; lovers of islands drive their stake, prospecting to run the flag of ego up the pole, sink on the tented ground, hot under azure, plunge in the heat of earth, and smell the stars of the incredible vales. At night, triumphant, they lift their eyes to Venus and to Mars. Their passion drives them to perpetuation: they dig, they plant, they build and they aspire to the eternal landmark; when they die the forest covers up their set desire, Salesmen and termites occupy their dwellings, their legendary politics decay. yet they achieve an ultimate memorial: they blend their flesh with the beloved clay. Read the original article here: Phyllis Allfrey: Love for an Island - Caribbean Beat Magazine - Caribbean Beat Magazine http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-10/phyllis-allfrey-love-island#ixzz4oOFBzYuX NB: this text is copyrighted, and only limited excerpting with full attribution is permitted. For licensing and reproduction permissions, please contact MEP Publishers directly. Follow us: @meppublishers on Twitter | caribbeanbeat on Facebook
    FROM: Love for an Island, (2014), Poem, Dominica
• David Rudder (1)
  • IN: House of Ashes (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The chant of the madman is the only salvation.
    FROM: "Madman's Rant", (1997), Song, Trinidad
• Rumi (1)
  • IN: House of Ashes (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They are here with us now, Those who saddle with a new broken colt Every morning and ride the seven levels of sky, Who lay down at night With the sun and the moon for pillows.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan