Senior, Olive
About Olive Senior
Biography (Poetry International Archives)
Reviews
Carlson, Rachel. "The Pain Tree." Herizons, vol. 31, no. 1, 2017
Wynner, J. "'Silver Workers' on the Panama Canal." Caribbean Compass, no. 243, Dec. 2015
Lowery, Ruth Mckoy. "Anna Carries Water Olive Senior." Bookbird, vol. 53, no. 4, 2015
Clarke, George Elliott. "Over the Roofs of the World." Malahat Review, no. 156, 2006
Interviews
Montout, Marie-Annick. "Translating a Culture in Stories from the Caribbean: A Conversation with Olive Senior." Journal of the Short Story in English, vol. 52, 2009
Savory, Elaine. "Interview with Olive Senior." Wadabagei, vol. 8, no. 3, 2005
Binder, Wolfgang. "An Interview with Olive Senior." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995
Rowell, Charles H. "Interview with Olive Senior." Callaloo, vol. 11, no. 3, 1988
Criticism
Collett, Anne. "'Why Don't You Write about Canada?' Olive Senior's Poetry, Everybody's History, and the 'Condition of Resonance'." Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature, Tanti et al. (eds.), 2017
Hoving, Isabel Lanham. Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire. 2017
Kruk, Laurie. Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story, 2016
Chew, Shirley. "'The Story Is Now about Us': Olive Senior to 'England's Wealthiest Son'." Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century, Cope and Cahill (eds.), 2015
Plasa, Carl. "Ekphrastic Poetry and the Middle Passage: Recent Encounters in the Black Atlantic." Connotations, vol. 24, no. 2, 2014-2015
Lalla, Barbara, et al. (eds.). Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean, 2014
Pollard, Velma. “To Us, All Flowers are Roses. Writing Ourselves into the Literature of the Caribbean.” Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean, Lalla et al. (eds.), 2014
Morgan, Paula E. "Meet Me in the Islands: Sun Sand and Transactional Sex in Caribbean Discourse." Anthurium, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013
Narain, Denise deCaires. "Gender, the Pastoral, and the Postcolonial Caribbean." Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Nair (ed.), 2012
Bucknor, Michael A. "Olive Senior: 'Grung'/Ground(ed) Poetics: 'The Voice from the Bottom of the Well'." The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Donnell and Bucknor (eds.), 2011
Narain, Denise deCaires. "Wordy, Worldly Women Poets: Louise Bennett, Lorna Goodison, and Olive Senior." The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Donnell and Bucknor (eds.), 2011
Dwyer, Dania. "History: Re-Membering History: The Aesthetics of Ruins in West Indian Postcolonial Poetry." The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Donnell and Bucknor (eds.), 2011
Shamma, Yasmine. “Drenched: Wet Poetries of Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior.” Caribbean Without Borders: Literature, Language and Culture, Smith et al. (eds.), 2009
Bucknor, Michael A. "Sounding Off: Performing Ritual Revolt in Olive Senior's 'Meditation on Yellow'." Mosaic, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009
Japtok, Martin. "Whiteness and the 'Magic of Money' in Olive Senior's 'Ascot'." Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, 2009
Papke, Renate Akron. Poems at the Edge of Difference: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women, 2008
Batcos, Stephanie. "Lessons from the Writer: Olive Seniors 'Over the Roofs of the World' and the Interface of the Caribbean-Canadian Reader." Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada, Williams (ed.), 2008
Emily Allen Williams. "Summer Lightning: Olive Senior's Jamaican Redemption." Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada, Williams (ed.), 2008
Pollard, Velma. "The Americas in Anglophone Caribbean Women Writers: Bridges of Sound." Black Renaissance, vol. 6-7, no. 3-1, 2006
Collett, Anne. "Blue Be-longing: A Discussion of Olive Senior's Latest Collection of Poetry/Over the Roofs of the World." ARIEL, vol. 37, no. 2-3, 2006
Stouck, Jordan. "Gardening in the Diaspora: Place and Identity in Olive Senior's Poetry." Mosaic, vol. 38, no. 4, 2005
Robinson, Kim Dismont. "'I Too Am Not a Bit Tamed': Flora, Fauna, and Folk Culture in Olive Senior's Over the Roofs of the World." Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2005
Stouck, Jordan. "Towards a Caribbean-Canadian Post-National: Olive Senior and Gardening in the Tropics." Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2005
Deloughrey, Elizabeth. "Island Ecologies and Caribbean Literatures." Journal of Economic & Social Geography, vol. 95, no. 3, 2004
Simpson, Hyacinth M. "Voicing the Text: The Making of an Oral Poetics in Olive Senior's Short Fiction." Callaloo, vol. 27, no. 3, 2004
Gilbert, Helen. "'Let Them Know You Have Broughtuptcy': Childhood and Child-Subjects in Olive Senior's Short Stories." Kunapipi, vol. 26, no. 1, 2004
James, Louis. "The Other Side of the Mirror: The Short Stories of Jean Rhys and Olive Senior." Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, 2003
Phillips, Gyllian. "Personal and Textual Geographies in Olive Senior's Literary Relationship with Jean Rhys." Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, 2003
Thieme, John. Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, 2001
Pollard, Velma. "'To Us All Flowers Are Roses': Writing Ourselves into the Literature of the Caribbean." Sargasso, vol. 65-73, 2001
Maisonnat, Claude. "The Poetics of Death: Olive Senior's 'Tears of the Sea'." Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English, Bardolph (ed.), 2001
Donnell, Alison. "The Short Fiction of Olive Senior." Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English, Condé and Lonsdale (eds.), 1999
Winer, Lise. "Comprehension and Resonance: English Readers and English Creole Texts." Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies Celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford and Romaine (eds.), 1999
Lalla, Barbara. "Registering Woman: Senior's Zig-Zag Discourse and Code-Switching in Jamaican Narrative." ARIEL, vol. 29, no. 4, 1998
Flockemann, Miki. "Asian Diasporas, Contending Identities and New Configurations: Stories by Agnes Sam and Olive Senior." English in Africa, vol. 25, no. 1, 1998
Collier, Gordon. "'At the Gate of Cultures': Religion, Mythology, and Folk-Belief in West Indian Poetry." And the Birds Began to Sing: Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures, Scott (ed.), 1996
Gafoor, Ameena. "The Image of the Indo-Caribbean Woman in Olive Senior's 'The Arrival of the Snake Woman'." Callaloo, vol. 16, no. 1, 1993
Louvel, Liliane. "'Summer Lightning': A Reading of Olive Senior's Short Story." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1991
O'Callaghan, Evelyn. "Feminist Consciousness: European/American Theory, Jamaican Stories." Journal of Caribbean Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1988
Works
Novels
Dancing Lessons (2011)
Children’s and Young Adults’ Books
Anna Carries Water (2013)
Birthday Suit (2012)
Short Story Collections
The Pain Tree (2015)
Discerner of Hearts and Other Stories (1995)
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (1989)
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (1986)
Poetry Collections
Un pipiri m'a dit/A little bird told me (2014)
Shell (2007)
Over the Roofs of the World (2005)
Gardening in the Tropics (1994)
Talking of Trees (1985)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Dying to Better Themselves (2014)
"'Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart': Voice and Vision in a Writer's Practice." Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, Brydon and Dvořák (eds.), 2012
"The Poem as Gardening, the Story as Su-Su: Finding a Literary Voice." Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2005
Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage (2003)
"Mad Fish." Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Hopkinson (ed.), 2000
Working Miracles (1991)
A-Z of Jamaican Heritage (1983)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Olive Senior Performs at Words Aloud 9. YouTube, 16. Jan. 2013