M. Nourbese Philip, writer -Home Page

"HOLD WE TO THE CENTRE OF REMEMBRANCE..."

M. NourbeSe Philip

Poet, essayist, novelist, playwright
and short story writer

"Fiction is about telling lies, but you must be scathingly honest in telling those lies. Poetry is about truth telling, but you need the lie - the artifice of the form to tell those truths."

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NourbeSe Philip's groundbreaking new poetry book has been published !

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New on the web site!

Listen to audio versions of poems from
She Tries Her Tongue
read by the author
as well as excerpts from the short story
"Burn Sugar"

This web site contains descriptions and excerpts of M. NourbeSe Philip's work in all genres, an extensive bibliography and a brief biography which outlines her writing career and the many awards and citations she has received. In addition there are excerpts from a number of reviews and a list of articles and films about her work.

Ms. Philip's work in all genres is on course curricula and is the subject of lectures and essays in universities and high schools throughout North America and the Caribbean, as well as in England, France, Germany and Australia. The site also contains links to several academic articles published on the internet , and includes the Microsoft Encarta Africana entry under her name.

News Flash!
She Tries Her Tongue
&
"Harriet's Daughter" on tape
Now available from the Author

"For the many like me, black and female, it is imperative that our writing begin to recreate our histories and our myths, as well as integrate that most painful of experiences-- loss of our history and our word. The reacquisition of power to create in one's own i-mage and to create one's own i-mage is vital to this process; it reaffirms for us that which we have always known, even in those most darkest of times which are still with us, when everything conspired to prove otherwise--that we belong most certainly to the race of humans." ..The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy ©

"Nourbese" screenprint
by Brenda Joy Lem.....

Featured Links

Letter to Kamau Brathwaite, as part of the campaign to Save the Cow Pasture

“Book of the Month” -"Alana's Trinbago Pages" and the "Bibliography of Creative Writing in Trinidad and Tobago"

“Spotlight Artist” RainTiger, October 2004 featuring the short story "Stop Frame"

Essay from Comparative Literature and Culture Web Journal - An academic essay entitled: "Comparative Cultural Studies and Ethnic Minority Writing Today: The Hybridities of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Emine Sevgi Özdamar." by Sabine Milz

"Song Lines of Memory in a Globalized World", Keynote Address by M. NourbeSe Philip at "Insurgent Cross-Cultural Conversations in the Expressive Arts: Contesting Notions of Transnationalism and Citizenship", a Ray Smith Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, Mar.2006

"A Poet of Place: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip" by Mahlis, Kristen
Callaloo - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 682-697, The Johns Hopkins University Press

Poet NourbeSe Philip Brings Mother Tongue to Redeemer by Anna Lensink

Crown archive Oct. 2004

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