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Philip Nanton

January 01, 1970

Philip Nanton (born 1947) is a Vincentian writer, poet and spoken-word performer, based in Barbados.[2] A sociologist by training, who also teaches cultural studies, he is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham, and lectures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.[3] He has been a contributor on Caribbean culture and literature to journals and magazines such as The Caribbean Review of Books, Shibboleths: a Journal of Theory and Criticism and Caribbean Quarterly,[3] and as a spoken-word artist has performed his work at festivals internationally.[4][5][6] In 2012, he represented St. Vincent & the Grenadines at Poetry Parnassus in London.[7][8]

Philip Nanton
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, spoken-word performer, broadcaster and academic
PartnerJane Bryce[1]
Websitephilipnanton.com

Nanton's published books include Island Voices: From St Christopher to the Barracudas and Frontiers of the Caribbean (2014), Canouan Suite and Other Pieces (2016), and Riff: The Shake Keane Story (2021).

Biography edit

Born in St Vincent & the Grenadines, Philip Nanton studied and lived in England between 1960 and 2000, when he relocated to Barbados.[3][9] He began his career in British local government policymaking, and completed his D.Phil at the University of Sussex (1986), following which he combined academic work with being a creative writer.[3] Among his publications are two edited anthologies of literary criticism. He has written of his "personal journey, away from conventional disciplinary analysis, primarily sociological, to the use of creative expression for social analysis in the context of the Caribbean."[10]

Among universities where he has taught, as well as performed work, are the University of Birmingham in England, St. Georges University in Grenada, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and, currently, the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in Barbados.[11]

Also a broadcaster, Nanton has made radio documentaries on Caribbean literature and culture, including presenting for BBC Radio 4 in 1998 What Does Mr Swanzy Want?, the story of Caribbean Voices, an influential programme of the 1940s and '50s, and its producer Henry Swanzy.[12]

In 2008, Nanton produced a spoken-word CD entitled Island Voices from St Christopher & the Barracudas, which was the basis of a 2014 book of the same name published by Papillote Press.[13]

His collection of creative writings Canouan Suite and Other Pieces, a finalist for the 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize for Caribbean Writers (now the Emerging Caribbean Writers Prize) at the Bocas Lit Fest,[14] was published in 2016 by Papillote Press, and was highly recommended for a 2018 Casa de las Américas Prize for Anglophone Caribbean Literature.[3] In 2017, Nanton published Frontiers of the Caribbean (Manchester University Press), described by Robert Edison Sandiford as a "blend of the 'scholarly' and the 'creative'."[15]

Nanton's most recently published book is Riff: The Shake Keane Story (2021), a biography of the Vincentian jazz musician and poet Shake Keane.[3][16][17] Reviewing Riff (which Nanton dedicates to photojournalist and historian Val Wilmer), jazz critic John Fordham wrote: "Nanton is closely attuned to the expressiveness of the local Creole-derived dialect's vowel-stretches and musicality, and to those issues of migration, masculinity and nationalism that profoundly shaped his subject's life. ...Philip Nanton's fine book opens a window on both a jazz story and a literary story that the chroniclers of both fields have largely bypassed."[18] In Caribbean Intelligence, John Stevenson's review concluded: "Nanton admirably succeeds in writing a highly engaging account of one of the Caribbean’s legendary creative forces."[19]

Honours and recognition edit

In 2012, Nanton's poem "Punctuation Marks" – from The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (edited by Ian McDonald and Stewart Brown, 1992) – represented Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the project Poetry 2012: The Written World, in which a poem was chosen to capture the spirit of each nation competing in the 2012 Olympic Games in a collaboration with BBC Radio Scotland.[20][21]

Bibliography edit

Books edit

  • (As editor) Remembering the Sea: An Introduction to Frank A. Collymore (2004)
  • (Co-edited with Nick Toczec and Yann Lovelock) Melanthika: An Anthology of Pan-Caribbean Writing (L. W. M. Publications, 1977, ISBN 9780905393018)
  • Island Voices from St. Christopher and the Barracudas; artwork by Caroline "booops" Sardine (Papillote Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0957118768)
  • Canouan Suite and Other Pieces, poetry (Papillote Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0993108679)
  • Frontiers of the Caribbean, monograph (Manchester University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5261-1373-3)
  • Riff: The Shake Keane Story, biography (Papillote Press, 2021, ISBN 9781999776893)

Selected shorter writings edit

  • "What Does Mr. Swanzy Want – Shaping or Reflecting? An Assessment of Henry Swanzy's Contribution to the Development of Caribbean Literature", Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2000), pp. 61–72. Originally in Kunapipi Vol. XX, No. 1 (1998).[22]
  • "Shake Keane's Poetic Legacy", in Sandra Courtman (ed.), The Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, Vol. 1, 2000.[23]
  • "London Calling", Caribbean Beat, Issue 63, September/October 2003.
  • "Frank A. Collymore: A Man of the Threshold", Kunapipi, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2004.
  • "The man who loved to have fun" (on Frank Collymore). Caribbean Beat (65), January–February 2004.[24]
  • "Power of one", The Caribbean Review of Books, August 2007.[25]
  • "Good to meet you ...", The Guardian, 1 March 2016.
  • "Writing the St Vincent frontier" (https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526114921.00014), in Frontiers of the Caribbean. 30 January 2017.
  • "'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Migration in Derek Walcott's Omeros and Homer's The Odyssey". Migration Studies, Volume 6, Issue 3, November 2018, pp. 472–476 (https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx068).
  • "Caribbean 'frontier societies' like St Vincent are defined by the ever-present interplay between the civilised and the wild", London School of Economics, 10 December 2018.[26]
  • "Belonging and a Sense of Place", Writers Mosaic, 2021.[27]
  • "Seeing Slantwise", Arts Etc, 30 December 2022.[28]

References edit

  1. ^ Nanton, Philip (30 January 2017). "Acknowledgements". Frontiers of the Caribbean. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526114921.
  2. ^ "5 Vincentian authors you should know". Loop. 10 September 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Philip Nanton | Biography". Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Philip Nanton". BIM magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Philip Nanton", Bocas LitFest.
  6. ^ "The Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair 2013" (PDF). 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  7. ^ "POUi: Editorial Committee". University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Poetry Parnassus: Douglas' Dinky Death (Saint Vincent & The Grenadines)". Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Philip Nanton". Papillote Press. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  10. ^ Nanton, Philip (30 January 2017). "Introduction". Frontiers of the Caribbean. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526114921. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  11. ^ Shafferkoetter, Kylie (2 February 2010). "Performance artist gives voice to Caribbean at UMSL". UMSL Daily. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  12. ^ "What Does Mr Swanzy Want? BBC Radio 4 FM, 22 November 1998", Radio Times, Issue 3902, 19 November 1998, p. 137.
  13. ^ "About Philip Nanton". 17 February 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Finalists announced for 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize". Bocas Lit Fest. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  15. ^ Sandiford, Robert Edison (2 January 2023). "A Review of Frontiers of the Caribbean". ArtsEtc.
  16. ^ "Riff". Papillote Press. 25 March 2021.
  17. ^ Stevenson, John. "Riff: The Shake Keane Story, By Philip Nanton (Book review)". Caribbean Intelligence. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  18. ^ Fordham, John (18 February 2021). "Philip Nanton – 'Riff: The Shake Keane Story'". London Jazz News. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  19. ^ Stevenson, John. "Riff: The Shake Keane Story, by Philip Nanton". Caribbean Intelligence. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  20. ^ "Punctuation Marks". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  21. ^ "Poetry 2012: The Written World". BBC Radio Scotland. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  22. ^ Nanton, Philip (March 2000). "What Does Mr. Swanzy Want – Shaping or Reflecting? An assessment of Henry Swanzy's contribution to the development of Caribbean Literature". Caribbean Quarterly. 46 (1): 61–72. doi:10.1080/00086495.2000.11672109. JSTOR 40654114. S2CID 163625808. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  23. ^ Nanton, Philip, "Shake Keane's Poetic Legacy", in Sandra Courtman (ed.), The Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, Vol. 1, 2000. ISSN 1471-2024.
  24. ^ "The man who loved to have fun". Caribbean Beat Magazine (65). Caribbean Airlines. January–February 2004. from the original on 25 December 2005.
  25. ^ "Power of one". The Caribbean Reiew of Books. August 2007.
  26. ^ "Caribbean 'frontier societies' like St Vincent are defined by the ever-present interplay between the civilised and the wild". LSE. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  27. ^ Nanton, Philip (2021). "Belonging and a Sense of Place" (PDF). Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  28. ^ Nanton, Philip (30 December 2022). "Seeing Slantwise". Arts Etc. Retrieved 26 December 2023.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Audios and Videos
  • "The Power of Caribbean Poetry: Word & Sound | Poetry Entertainment: Philip Nanton", Sounds – Arts, literature & performance, British Library, 20 September 2012.
  • Philip Nanton at Writers Mosaic, an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund.

January 01, 1970
philip, nanton, born, 1947, vincentian, writer, poet, spoken, word, performer, based, barbados, sociologist, training, also, teaches, cultural, studies, honorary, research, associate, university, birmingham, lectures, university, west, indies, cave, hill, been. Philip Nanton born 1947 is a Vincentian writer poet and spoken word performer based in Barbados 2 A sociologist by training who also teaches cultural studies he is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham and lectures at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill 3 He has been a contributor on Caribbean culture and literature to journals and magazines such as The Caribbean Review of Books Shibboleths a Journal of Theory and Criticism and Caribbean Quarterly 3 and as a spoken word artist has performed his work at festivals internationally 4 5 6 In 2012 he represented St Vincent amp the Grenadines at Poetry Parnassus in London 7 8 Philip NantonBorn1947 age 76 77 Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesAlma materUniversity of SussexOccupation s Writer poet spoken word performer broadcaster and academicPartnerJane Bryce 1 Websitephilipnanton wbr com Nanton s published books include Island Voices From St Christopher to the Barracudas and Frontiers of the Caribbean 2014 Canouan Suite and Other Pieces 2016 and Riff The Shake Keane Story 2021 Contents 1 Biography 2 Honours and recognition 3 Bibliography 3 1 Books 3 2 Selected shorter writings 4 References 5 External linksBiography editBorn in St Vincent amp the Grenadines Philip Nanton studied and lived in England between 1960 and 2000 when he relocated to Barbados 3 9 He began his career in British local government policymaking and completed his D Phil at the University of Sussex 1986 following which he combined academic work with being a creative writer 3 Among his publications are two edited anthologies of literary criticism He has written of his personal journey away from conventional disciplinary analysis primarily sociological to the use of creative expression for social analysis in the context of the Caribbean 10 Among universities where he has taught as well as performed work are the University of Birmingham in England St Georges University in Grenada the University of Missouri St Louis and currently the University of the West Indies Cave Hill in Barbados 11 Also a broadcaster Nanton has made radio documentaries on Caribbean literature and culture including presenting for BBC Radio 4 in 1998 What Does Mr Swanzy Want the story of Caribbean Voices an influential programme of the 1940s and 50s and its producer Henry Swanzy 12 In 2008 Nanton produced a spoken word CD entitled Island Voices from St Christopher amp the Barracudas which was the basis of a 2014 book of the same name published by Papillote Press 13 His collection of creative writings Canouan Suite and Other Pieces a finalist for the 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize for Caribbean Writers now the Emerging Caribbean Writers Prize at the Bocas Lit Fest 14 was published in 2016 by Papillote Press and was highly recommended for a 2018 Casa de las Americas Prize for Anglophone Caribbean Literature 3 In 2017 Nanton published Frontiers of the Caribbean Manchester University Press described by Robert Edison Sandiford as a blend of the scholarly and the creative 15 Nanton s most recently published book is Riff The Shake Keane Story 2021 a biography of the Vincentian jazz musician and poet Shake Keane 3 16 17 Reviewing Riff which Nanton dedicates to photojournalist and historian Val Wilmer jazz critic John Fordham wrote Nanton is closely attuned to the expressiveness of the local Creole derived dialect s vowel stretches and musicality and to those issues of migration masculinity and nationalism that profoundly shaped his subject s life Philip Nanton s fine book opens a window on both a jazz story and a literary story that the chroniclers of both fields have largely bypassed 18 In Caribbean Intelligence John Stevenson s review concluded Nanton admirably succeeds in writing a highly engaging account of one of the Caribbean s legendary creative forces 19 Honours and recognition editIn 2012 Nanton s poem Punctuation Marks from The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry edited by Ian McDonald and Stewart Brown 1992 represented Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the project Poetry 2012 The Written World in which a poem was chosen to capture the spirit of each nation competing in the 2012 Olympic Games in a collaboration with BBC Radio Scotland 20 21 Bibliography editBooks edit As editor Remembering the Sea An Introduction to Frank A Collymore 2004 Co edited with Nick Toczec and Yann Lovelock Melanthika An Anthology of Pan Caribbean Writing L W M Publications 1977 ISBN 9780905393018 Island Voices from St Christopher and the Barracudas artwork by Caroline booops Sardine Papillote Press 2014 ISBN 978 0957118768 Canouan Suite and Other Pieces poetry Papillote Press 2016 ISBN 978 0993108679 Frontiers of the Caribbean monograph Manchester University Press 2017 ISBN 978 1 5261 1373 3 Riff The Shake Keane Story biography Papillote Press 2021 ISBN 9781999776893 Selected shorter writings edit What Does Mr Swanzy Want Shaping or Reflecting An Assessment of Henry Swanzy s Contribution to the Development of Caribbean Literature Caribbean Quarterly Vol 46 No 1 March 2000 pp 61 72 Originally in Kunapipi Vol XX No 1 1998 22 Shake Keane s Poetic Legacy in Sandra Courtman ed The Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers Vol 1 2000 23 London Calling Caribbean Beat Issue 63 September October 2003 Frank A Collymore A Man of the Threshold Kunapipi Vol 26 Issue 1 2004 The man who loved to have fun on Frank Collymore Caribbean Beat 65 January February 2004 24 Power of one The Caribbean Review of Books August 2007 25 Good to meet you The Guardian 1 March 2016 Writing the St Vincent frontier https doi org 10 7765 9781526114921 00014 in Frontiers of the Caribbean 30 January 2017 All that Greek manure under the green bananas Migration in Derek Walcott s Omeros and Homer s The Odyssey Migration Studies Volume 6 Issue 3 November 2018 pp 472 476 https doi org 10 1093 migration mnx068 Caribbean frontier societies like St Vincent are defined by the ever present interplay between the civilised and the wild London School of Economics 10 December 2018 26 Belonging and a Sense of Place Writers Mosaic 2021 27 Seeing Slantwise Arts Etc 30 December 2022 28 References edit Nanton Philip 30 January 2017 Acknowledgements Frontiers of the Caribbean Manchester University Press ISBN 9781526114921 5 Vincentian authors you should know Loop 10 September 2022 Retrieved 13 December 2022 a b c d e f Philip Nanton Biography Writers Mosaic Retrieved 13 December 2022 Philip Nanton BIM magazine Retrieved 13 December 2022 Philip Nanton Bocas LitFest The Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair 2013 PDF 2013 Retrieved 13 December 2022 POUi Editorial Committee University of the West Indies at Cave Hill Barbados Retrieved 13 December 2022 Poetry Parnassus Douglas Dinky Death Saint Vincent amp The Grenadines Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay 2 January 2013 Retrieved 13 December 2022 Philip Nanton Papillote Press 25 March 2021 Retrieved 13 December 2022 Nanton Philip 30 January 2017 Introduction Frontiers of the Caribbean Manchester University Press ISBN 9781526114921 Retrieved 2 January 2023 Shafferkoetter Kylie 2 February 2010 Performance artist gives voice to Caribbean at UMSL UMSL Daily Retrieved 2 January 2023 What Does Mr Swanzy Want BBC Radio 4 FM 22 November 1998 Radio Times Issue 3902 19 November 1998 p 137 About Philip Nanton 17 February 2017 Retrieved 13 December 2022 Finalists announced for 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize Bocas Lit Fest 19 March 2014 Retrieved 28 December 2022 Sandiford Robert Edison 2 January 2023 A Review of Frontiers of the Caribbean ArtsEtc Riff Papillote Press 25 March 2021 Stevenson John Riff The Shake Keane Story By Philip Nanton Book review Caribbean Intelligence Retrieved 13 December 2022 Fordham John 18 February 2021 Philip Nanton Riff The Shake Keane Story London Jazz News Retrieved 2 January 2023 Stevenson John Riff The Shake Keane Story by Philip Nanton Caribbean Intelligence Retrieved 2 January 2023 Punctuation Marks Scottish Poetry Library Retrieved 26 December 2023 Poetry 2012 The Written World BBC Radio Scotland 9 August 2012 Retrieved 26 December 2023 Nanton Philip March 2000 What Does Mr Swanzy Want Shaping or Reflecting An assessment of Henry Swanzy s contribution to the development of Caribbean Literature Caribbean Quarterly 46 1 61 72 doi 10 1080 00086495 2000 11672109 JSTOR 40654114 S2CID 163625808 Retrieved 13 December 2022 Nanton Philip Shake Keane s Poetic Legacy in Sandra Courtman ed The Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers Vol 1 2000 ISSN 1471 2024 The man who loved to have fun Caribbean Beat Magazine 65 Caribbean Airlines January February 2004 Archived from the original on 25 December 2005 Power of one The Caribbean Reiew of Books August 2007 Caribbean frontier societies like St Vincent are defined by the ever present interplay between the civilised and the wild LSE 10 December 2018 Retrieved 2 January 2023 Nanton Philip 2021 Belonging and a Sense of Place PDF Writers Mosaic Retrieved 2 January 2023 Nanton Philip 30 December 2022 Seeing Slantwise Arts Etc Retrieved 26 December 2023 External links editOfficial website Audios and Videos The Power of Caribbean Poetry Word amp Sound Poetry Entertainment Philip Nanton Sounds Arts literature amp performance British Library 20 September 2012 Philip Nanton at Writers Mosaic an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Philip Nanton amp oldid 1220110577, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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