RiffRiff explores the turbulent life of the Caribbean musician and poet Shake Keane (1927 97). A trend setting but troubled Caribbean icon, he absorbed many of the themes of the 20th century colonialism, migration and masculinity. Each of them found expression in his work. Born in St Vincent, he migrated to London in the early 1950s where he became an important figure in the free form jazz scene. A return to his birthplace was blighted by politics, and

but also as translators

and a televised manhunt enthralls an entire nation

Giselle Leeb

‘No thing in the world is one thing

rationalistic materialism of his science teacher

poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise

yet admirably forensic in its approach to mineral life

The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while struggling to reconcile her idealization of The Modern Marriage with the painful reality of life with a philandering husband

All this and more in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT

over Rasta homophobia

the author has created an unconventional thriller that will linger long in the memory

he can still hear birds chirping in his "inner hedges"