Philip Nanton

Philip Nanton is a writer, poet, broadcaster and performer who lives in Barbados. In 2008 he produced a spoken word cd 'Island Voices from St Christopher & the Barracudas,' an affectionately humorous dramatization of individual voices that capture aspects of island life. He has performed the monologues throughout the Caribbean and internationally, and published them as a collection in 2014 with Papillote Press. In 2016 he brought out the poetry collection 'Canouan Suite & Other Pieces', with the same publisher. In 2017 he published a monograph 'Frontiers of the Caribbean', which takes a new approach to situating the Caribbean in world culture (Manchester University Press). His most recent book is a biography of the neglected Vincentian jazz musician and poet, Shake Keane: 'Riff: the Shake Keane Story' (Papillote Press, 2021).