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  • Some Critical Resources on Olive Senior's Writing, with Special Reference to Gardening in the Tropics

    • A Selection of Critical Articles on Gardening in the Tropics


  • Bucknor, Michael A. 鈥淪ounding Off: Performing Ritual Revolt in Olive Senior's 'Meditation on Yellow.鈥 Mosaic Journal,
    vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, pp. 55-71.

  • Collett, Anne. 鈥溾楢nd Women鈥檚 Tongue Clatters Out of Turn鈥: Olive Senior鈥檚 Praise Song For Woman-weed." Kunapipi,
    vol. 20, no. 2, 1999, pp. 56-67..

  • ---. 鈥淕ardening in the Tropics: A Horticultural Guide to Caribbean Politics and Poetics, with Special Reference to the
    Poetry of Olive Senior.鈥 SPAN, vol. 46, 1998, pp. 87-103.

  • Piscitelli, June Turner. 鈥淭he Gourd of Unity.鈥 Mango Season, vol. 13, no. 2, 2001, pp. 154-165.

  • Stouck, Jordan. 鈥淕ardening in the Diaspora: Place and Identity in Olive Senior's Poetry.鈥 Mosaic: A Journal for the
    Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 38, no. 4, 2005, pp. 103-122.

  • Tiffin, Helen. "Replanted in this Arboreal Place: Gardens and Flowers in Contemporary Caribbean Writing." English
    Literatures in an International Context. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2000, pp. 149-163.

    Full-Text Reviews of Gardening in the Tropics

  • Dash, J. Michael. "Poetry with a Plot." Review of Gardening in the Tropics, by Olive Senior. Caribbean Week, 16-19
    August, 1994, pp. 50.
  • Dawes, Kwame. Review of Gardening in the Tropics, by Olive Senior. CHIMO, 1995.
    • Interviews

  • Aiyejina, Funso. 鈥淥live Senior.鈥 Self-Portraits: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics, University of the
    West Indies Press, 2003. pp. 23-39.

  • Degen, John. 鈥淐loser to Home: Olive Senior's Detailed Evocations of Place are Intended for Everyone (profile)." Books in
    Canada. vol. 7, no. 11, 1995, pp. 7-11.

  • Glaser, Marlies. 鈥淎 Shared Culture: An Interview with Olive Senior.鈥 Caribbean Writers: Between Orality and Writing,
    edited by Marlies Glaser and Marion Pausch, Rodopi, 1994, pp. 77-84.

  • 鈥淥live Senior.鈥 Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews With Anglophone Caribbean Poets, edited by Kwame Dawes, University Press of
    Virginia, 2001. pp. 73-85.

  • Rowell, Charles H. 鈥淎n Interview with Olive Senior.鈥 Callaloo vol. 11, no. 3, 2008, pp. 480-90.

  • Rutherford, Anna. 鈥淥live Senior: Interview.鈥 Kunapipi vol. 8, no. 2, 1986, pp. 11-20.

  • Savory, Elaine. 鈥淚nterview with Olive Senior.鈥 Wadabegei vol. 8, no. 3, 2005, pp. 105-112.

  • Simpson, Hyacinth. 鈥淭he In-Between Worlds of Olive Senior: An Interview.鈥 Wasafiri vol. 23, no. 1, 2008, pp. 10-15.

    Other Critical Resources

  • Narain, Denise deCaires. Olive Senior, Northcote House Publishers, 2011.

  • ---. 鈥淲ordy, Worldy Women Poets: Louise Bennett, Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior.鈥 The Routledge Companion to
    Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 2011. pp. 199-208.

  • Pollard, Velma. 鈥淎n Introduction to the Poetry and Fiction of Olive Senior.鈥 Callaloo, vol. 36, 1988, pp. 540-545.

  • ---. 鈥溾楾o Us All Flowers are Roses鈥: Writing Ourselves into the Literature of the Caribbean." Centre of Remembrance: Memory
    and Caribbean Women鈥檚 Literature, edited by Joan Anim-Addo, Mango Publishing, 2002, pp. 93-100.

  • Simpson, Hyacinth M. 鈥'Voicing the Text': The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction." Callaloo, vol. 27
    no. 3, 2004, pp. 829-843.
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  • ---. 鈥淥live Senior.鈥 The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, edited by Brian W. Shaffer and John Clement Ball, vol. 3,
    Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 1338-1340.

  • ---. 鈥淲riting Jamaica, Once Again.鈥 Rev. of Olive Senior鈥檚 The Pain Tree (2015). Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, vol. 6,
    no. 1, 2016, pp. 103-106. Print.


    • Olive Senior has posted a list of critical resources on her work at her website. The list is available .