Volume 49, Nos. 1 & 2 March - June 2003

Foreword ix
Rex Nettleford

Editorial xi
Esther Figueroa

The Middle Passage 1
Esther Figueroa

Celebration of Life: John Joseph Maria Figueroa 2
John peter Figueroa

Two poems by John Figueroa 6
Love Leaps Here...
Hartlands/Heartlands

Remembrance 9
Frank getlein

Excerpts of John Figueroa's Holy Cross Letters 11
to His Parent

Remembrance - The Education of a Poet 20
Joseph Cunneen

Three Poems by John Figueroa 22
The Garden Gate
Accompaniment
A prayer for D.G.M.A.F.

Poem by Philip Nanton 25
Dorothy and the Boys
A Celebration of the life of Dorothy Grace Murray Alenander Figueroa Dorothy Anna Figueroa Jarvis 26

Unpublished Poetry Excerpts by Dorothy Alexander Figueroa 29

Four Poems by Cecil Gray 36
Swift Moving Water
Amen
Lucky One
To Wonder At

Two Remembrances
Green Hills and Purple Prose: Remembering the Past
Mavis Burke 41
A Tribute -
Christopher Pym 42

Three Poems by Pamela Mordecai 44
Patriarch
Convent Girl
Serafina

Fiction by Mavis Burke 49
Park Home: Tale of a Bench and Bag Lady

Two Poems by John Figueroa 53
SILENCE and the WORD
Problems of a Writer who does not Quite
A Poem by Derek Walcott 56
Nearing Forty

Poem by John Figueroa 60
Invaders

Interviews with John Figueroa 61
Philip Nanton
Erika J.Waters (The Caribbean Writer)

A Poem by John Figueroa 75
Cosmopolitan Pig

Three Poems by Louise Bennett 77
Uriah preach
Dutty Tough
Colonisation in Reserse
Excerpt from "A Passage to Some other Place: Finding the Caribbean on a boat and learning in London about Caribbean Attitudes."
John Figueroa 81

Four Poems by James Berry 83
Drawn to water
Looking at the Painting Fin l' Arabesque by Edgar Degas
Sharing is an Open Game
Haiku Moments 1

A Poem by John Agard 86
Equatic Beyond the Margins

A Poem by Grace Nichols 91
Wings

Two Remembrances
Figueroan Fragment 94
John NewBould
John Figueroa - A man o' Pairts 96
Alastair Niven

Fiction by Vanessa Spence 100
The Quick Visit

Three Poems by John Figueroa 113
The Dance
A portrait of a Woman ( and a Man)
Birth Is

Three Poems by Esther Figueroa 117
the sound of rain
the terror of remembering
the gift of forgetting

Fiction by Alexei Figueroa 119
Papi in Zion

A Poem by Nara Anderson Figueroa 120
My Imaginary Composition

Remembrance - If I Die... 121
Marshall Morris

Five Poems by John Figueroa 126
Two From Cidra
That green would grow in Me
Clarity
Yes I Recall
The Garden, Green and Great

A Poem by Gloria Escoffrey 130
House and Home

Two Poems by Velma Pollard 133
Old Town Montserrat
Train to Venice

Three Poems by John Figueroa 136
The The Facade of the Eglise de Brou
On Seeing the Reflection of the Notre Dame in the Seine
The White, The Green and The Red

A Poem by mervyn Morris 138
A Chant Against Death

A Poem by Edward Baugh 139
Walking into Jerusalem

Extract of a Letter Ralph Thompson from John Figueroa 144

Two Poems by Ralph Thompson 142
This New Light
Espousals

Three Poems by John Figueroa 144
The Little Boy at Dawn
You Cannot Hear Silence
Brou III

Fiction by Christine Craig 147
The Queen of Sheba

Three Poems by John Figueroa 161
Birthday Poem 1970
On Losing Grips
Ignoring Hurts

Three Poems by Honor Ford - Smith 162
Anna Taurus
Daddy the Divine
A Place Called Home

Fiction by Oliver Senior 166
The Pain Tree

Four Poems by John Figueroa 174
The Descent to Water
Pastores
For and After Sappho
Hespera (After Sappho)

Six Poems by Jane King Hippolyte 177
Same Circus, second year
Geography for Robert
On Whether it Has to Have Palm Trees to be in Caribbean
Poetry
The Performer gets some Comfort from a Tree
The Performer's Prayer in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
I'll Tell You One Thing for Free

Poem by Ian McDonald 181
A Simple Man

Two Poems by E.A. Markham 183
Malice
The Secret

Six Poems by John Figueroa 186
Closure
Goodbye (After Lorca)
I Will Plant Morning Glories where You Lie
Epitaph
Too late...
Spring Feast

Bibliography of John Figueroa's Major Works 191

Notes on Contributors 192

Information for Contributors 196