• 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. “Sounding Off: Performing Ritual Revolt in Olive Senior's 'Meditation on Yellow.” Mosaic Journal,
    vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, pp. 55-71.

  • Collett, Anne. “‘And Women’s Tongue Clatters Out of Turn’: Olive Senior’s Praise Song For Woman-weed." Kunapipi,
    vol. 20, no. 2, 1999, pp. 56-67..

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

  • Piscitelli, June Turner. “The Gourd of Unity.” Mango Season, vol. 13, no. 2, 2001, pp. 154-165.

  • Stouck, Jordan. “Gardening in the Diaspora: Place and Identity in Olive Senior's Poetry.” 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.
  • Dash's review is available here.

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  • Dawes, Kwame. Review of Gardening in the Tropics, by Olive Senior. CHIMO, 1995.
  • Dawes' review is available here.
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    Interviews

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

  • Degen, John. “Closer 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. “A Shared Culture: An Interview with Olive Senior.” Caribbean Writers: Between Orality and Writing,
    edited by Marlies Glaser and Marion Pausch, Rodopi, 1994, pp. 77-84.

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

  • Rowell, Charles H. “An Interview with Olive Senior.” Callaloo vol. 11, no. 3, 2008, pp. 480-90.

  • Rutherford, Anna. “Olive Senior: Interview.” Kunapipi vol. 8, no. 2, 1986, pp. 11-20.

  • Savory, Elaine. “Interview with Olive Senior.” Wadabegei vol. 8, no. 3, 2005, pp. 105-112.

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

    Other Critical Resources

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

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

  • Pollard, Velma. “An Introduction to the Poetry and Fiction of Olive Senior.” Callaloo, vol. 36, 1988, pp. 540-545.

  • ---. “‘To Us All Flowers are Roses’: Writing Ourselves into the Literature of the Caribbean." Centre of Remembrance: Memory
    and Caribbean Women’s Literature, edited by Joan Anim-Addo, Mango Publishing, 2002, pp. 93-100.

  • Simpson, Hyacinth M. “'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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  • ---. “Olive Senior.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, edited by Brian W. Shaffer and John Clement Ball, vol. 3,
    Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 1338-1340.

  • ---. “Writing Jamaica, Once Again.” Rev. of Olive Senior’s 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 here.