The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 OCM BOCAS PRIZE

A startling new dream-like vision of Jamaica—a work of surreal poetic fiction, lavishly studded with ecological prayers, drawings, and footnotes about healing herbs, disappearing flora-fauna, and buried herstories—by Whiting Award winner Marcia Douglas

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, which continues Marcia Douglas’ “spec...