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First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey

First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica - in my capacity as a journalist - to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK newspaper. Indirectly, that visit led to the creation of Papillote Press and the publication of three titles by Phyllis: her one published novel,...

Elma Napier Remembered

Elma Napier Remembered

ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her first husband; Tahiti where she travelled with her second husband, Lennox Napier, and London. Her home in Dominica was in...

And Still They Stand

And Still They Stand

AND STILL THEY STAND... It’s refreshing when a review of a new book is imaginatively paired with another book, which could not - within the scope of the subject - be more different. In this case, Papillote Press’ Still Standing: the Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene Heron, with photographs by Marica Honychurch, was reviewed in The Architectural Historian, the magazine of the Society of...

My Ti Kai, My Home

My Ti Kai, My Home

My Ti Kai, My Home. Olive Bell Olive Bell, the Dominican architect remembers life in a tikai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. Olive Bell was part of the team who collaborated on the making of the just published book, 'Still Standing', about the vernacular architecture of Dominica. She grew up in a ti kai on the island. Here she reflects on her childhood...

Making Connections

Making Connections

Making connections Women Writers Making connections... Three white women writers of Dominica - Jean Rhys, now the subject of a new and much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, writer and politician, and Elma Napier, also writer, politician and early environmentalist. Here, superimposed on the elegant cover of the Rhys biography are the covers of books by Allfrey (The...

Series of en Papillote Press Book Readings

A reading from Dangerous Freedom

A reading from RIFF

A reading from Home Home

A reading from Gone to Drift

A reading from The Art of White Roses

A reading from Abraham’s Treasure