Primary Sources

• Merle Collins's Twitter acccount, since 2009.

 

Extracts from Novels

• 'From Streams of Water', Conjunctions 41 (Fall 2003), pp. 121-152.

 

Poems

• 'No Dialects Please', in Grandchildren of Albion: An Illustrated Anthology of Voices and Visions of Younger Poets in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (Stroud: New Departures, 1992).
• 'Two Poems' ('Crick Crack' and 'Nabel String'), Conjunctions 27 (Fall 1996), pp. 193-198.
• 'Multicultural Abroad', Scottish Poetry Library, n.d. Also in Penguin Modern Poets: Jackie Kay, Merle Collins, Grace Nichols (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996).
• 'Callaloo', Callaloo 30.1 (Winter 2007), pp. 238-241. Also in Before the Dawn Breaks.
• 'Quality Time', Big Drum Nation, 5 April 2015. Also in Lady in a Boat.

 

Articles, Essays, & Lectures

• 'Writing and Creole Language Politics', in Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity, ed. Kathleen M. Balutansky & Marie-Agnès Sourieau (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998; Gainesville: Library Press@UF, 2017), pp. 89-95.
• 'WLP Event: Life Lines March 25, 2002 - Part 3 feat. Merle Collins (Grenada)', YouTube, uploaded by Women's Learning Partnership - WLP, 12 September 2011.
• 'Tout Moun ka Pléwé (Everybody Bawling)', small axe 11.1 [22] (February 2007), pp. 1-16.
• 'Are You a Bolshevik or a Menshevik? Mimicry, Alienation and Confusion in the Grenada Revolution', Interventions 12.1 (2010), pp. 35-45. Also published in The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics ed. Shalini Puri (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), pp. 25-35.
• 'What Happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey', Social and Economic Studies 62.3&4 (September/December 2013), pp. 15-44.
• Review of Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones, by Carole Boyce Davies, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 90.1&2 (2016), pp. 151-152.
• Review of Frontiers of the Caribbean, by Philip Nanton, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 92.3&4 (2018), pp. 379-380.

 

Readings

• 'Night 15: Merle Collins reading Kamau Brathwaite's "The Dust"', YouTube, uploaded by Kamau Brathwaite Remix Engine, 25 May 202.
• 'Merle Collins, Kwame Dawes, Donna Hemans, and Mark McMorris | 2005 Lannan Symposium | Black Archipelago', Vimeo, uploaded by Lannan Centre, 2017.

 

Interviews

• 'An Interview with Merle Collins', by Betty Wilson, Callaloo 16.1 (Winter 1993), pp. 94-107.
• 'Working Out Grenada: An Interview with Merle Collins', by Jacqueline Bishop and Dolace Nicole McLean, Calabash 3.2 (Fall-Winter 2005), pp. 53-65.
• 'Merle Collins - b. 1950', by Thorunn Lonsdale, Journal of the Short Story in English 41 (Autumn 2003), pp. 299-301. Originally published in issue 26 (1996).
• 'Podcast 17: An Interview with Merle Collins', by Vladimir Lucien, University of the West Indies, 21 June 2012. Recorded at the 30th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, October 2011.
• 'An interview with Dr Merle Collins', by Shirley Anstis, Today Magazine, Autumn 2013. Repr. online on They Call Me..., 25 January 2014.
• 'Merle Collins', Caribbean Literary Heritage, 2018.
• 'Valuing Self and Celebrating Our Own Creativity and Exploration - Merle Collins', Big Drum Nation, 26 January 2020.
• 'Interview with Retiring Professor Merle Collins',University of Maryland, 19 May 2021.

 

Secondary Sources

• Campos, Sandra, 'Community and Continuity: Reading Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting', Macomère 5 (2002), pp. 114-121.
• Casado i Gual, Núria, 'The Past of Slavery Remembered and Recreated in Merle Collins' Rotten Pomerack', Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN: Lleida. 17th-19th December 1998, ed. Pere Gallardo Torrano & Enric Llurda Giménez (Lleida: Universitat de Lleida, 2000), pp. 485-488.
• Company, Susana María, 'Boxeando con la historia: "Shadowboxing", un cuento de Merle Collins', in Multicultural Texts and Voices, ed. María Marta Michel (Salta, Argentina: Eucasa - Ediciones Universidad Carótica de Salta, 2019), pp. 37-44.
• Company, Susana María, María Marta Michel, & María Soledad Loutayf, 'Using Literature and Translation to Foster Intercultural Communicative Competence', Literature in ELT: Selected Papers from the 44th FAAPI Conference ed. Darío Luis Banegas, Melina Porto, Mario López-Barrios, & Florencia Perduca (Salta: Asociación Salteña de Profesores de Inglés - ASPI, 2019), pp. 54-63. Partly deals with the poem 'México - aunque no parezcamos' (from Lady in a Boat).
• Deloughrey, Elizabeth, 'Island Writing, Creole Cultures', in The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, Volume 2, ed. Ato Quayson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 802-832. See esp. p. 819 on Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting.
• Dilger, Gerhard, '"We Doin We Own Ting!": Revolution and Literature in Grenada', in Alternative Cultures in the Caribbean: First International Conference on the Society of Caribbean Research, Berlin 1988, ed. Thomas Bremer & Ulrich Fleischmann (Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1993), pp. 217-244.
• Deckard, Sharae, 'Cacao and Cascadura: Energetic Consumption and Production in World-Ecological Literature', Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53.3 (2017), pp. 342-254. Partly deals with Angel.
• Delrosso, Jeana, 'Catholicism's Other(ed) Holy Trinity: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Catholic Girl School Narratives', NWSA Journal 12.1 (Spring 2000), pp. 24-43. Partly deals with Angel.
• Hagimoto, Koichib, 'Female Voices in Revolution: Autobiography and Collective Memory in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade and Merle Collins's Angel', Utah Foreign Language Review 20 (2012), pp. 39-55.
• Lima, Maria Helena, 'Revolutionary Developments: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Merle Collins's Angel', Ariel 24.1 (January 1993), pp. 35-56.
• Meehan, Kevin, 'Romance and Revolution: Reading Women's Narratives of Caribbean Decolonization', Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 25.2 (Fall 2006), pp. 291-306. Partly deals with Angel.
• Moralejo Gárate, Teresa, '"The Visit" de Merle Collins y "The Bed Sitting Room" de Maureen Ismay: dos aproximaciones al tema del desplazamiento en la literatura post-colonial', Lenguaje y textos 18 (2002), pp. 143-155. In Spanish.
• Nelson, John C., 'A "Parvenu Predator"? When the Kill Zone and the Contact Zone Collide on the Isle of Spice', in Caribbean Literary Encounters, ed. Shalini Puri & Lara Putnam (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 231-247.
• Shemak, April 'Re/writing Reconciliation in Merle Collins's Angel', Caribbean Quarterly 60.1 (2014), pp. 42-60.
• Sigrist, Clare M., 'Maps of Intimate and Institutional Change in Merle Collins's Angel and Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running', Arthurium 13.2 (2016), 16 pp.

 

Conferences Papers

• Cooper, Carolyn, 'The Preconditions of Revolution: Merle Collins' Angel', 17th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, St George's, Grenada, 26-29 May 1992.

 

Entries in Encyclopedias

• Prince, Tracy J., 'Collins, Merle', in Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, ed. Alison Donnell (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 79.

 

Theses and Dissertations

• Anim-Addo, Joan Lilian, 'Breaking the Silence: First-Wave Anglophone African-Caribbean Women Novelists and Dynamics of History, Language and Publication', PhD thesis, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK, 2001.
• Edwin, Marl'ene, 'Orality in the Body of the Archive: Memorialising Representations of Creole Language and Culture in the Technologised Word', PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2016. Includes a chapter on Angel.
• Florian, Sara, 'Contemporary West Indian Poetry: A "Creole" Aesthetics?', PhD thesis, University Ca'Foscari Venice, Italy, 2010. Contains a chapter dealing with Merle Collins's poetry (pp. 192-211).
• Pearn, Julie, 'Poetry as Performing Art in the English-Speaking Caribbean', PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, UK, 1985. Includes a brief analysis of Merle Collins's poetry (pp. 281-287).
• Rodella, Milena, 'Unlayering History, Body and Landscape in the work of Jean Binta Breeze, Merle Collins, Marlene Nourbese Philip and Olive Senior', PhD thesis, University of Reading, UK, 2010.
• Said Tewfik, Lamia Mohamed, 'Symbolic Revolution in the Text: A Study of Selected Poems by Contemporary Caribbean Women Writer', PhD thesis, Cairo University, Egypt, 2006.
• Scafe, Suzanne, '"Now the Half Has Been Told: Resistance and the Fiction of Four Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers', PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London, UK, 2006. Includes a chapter on Angel.
• Shemak, April Ann, 'Reimagining the Nation: Corporeality, Land and Language in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Merle Collins' Angel, MA dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 1998, 110 pp.
• Smith, Robert Kyriakos, 'Representing Radical Politics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature After Independence', PhD thesis, UCLA, USA, 2020.

 

Profiles

• 'Dr. Merle Collins - Grenadian Poet And Novelist', St George's University, 26 March 2004.

 

News

• 'Merle Collins Receives Global Classrooms Initiative Grant', University of Maryland, 5 November 2014.
• 'Merle Collins Selected as 2018-2019 Distinguished Scholar Teacher', University of Maryland, 3 April 2018.
• 'Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Merle Collins Appointed Director of UMD Latin American Studies Center', University of Maryland, 7 October 2019.

 

Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews, 25 September 1988.
• Publishers Weekly, 10 January 1998.
• Brooks, Jane, 'Struggling towards a Voice', Third World Quarterly 10.3 (July 1988), pp. 1368-1370.
• DoHarris, Brenda, 'Angel: A Novel by Merle Collins', The Zora Neale Hurston Forum 4.1 (Fall 1989): 25-28.
• Salkey, Andrew, World Literature Today 63.1 (Winter 1989), p. 151.

• Newson, Adele S., World Literature Today 70.2 (Spring 1996), pp. 451-452.

• 'From the 2012 Bocas Lit Prize longlist: The Ladies are Upstairs, by Merle Collins', Charmaine Valere: Book Lover. Book Reviewer. Literary Critic. Caribbean, 21 March 2012.
• Wharton Lowe, John, Journal of the Short Story in English 61 (Spring 2013), pp. 165-167.

• Beard, Linda Susan, Sage 5.2 (Fall 1988), p. 80.

• Cobham, Rhonda, 'Making It through the Night', New Beacon Review 2&3 (November 1986), pp. 72-77.

 

• Taylor, Caldwell, 'Nation Food and Nationhood', Big Drum Nation, 7 February 2020.

 

Miscellaneous

• Derrick, Kim, 'Collins' Poetry Entices', The Darmouth, 16 February 1994.
• 'Panel poster; Commonwealth Poems on the Underground, Free, by Merle Collins, 2002', London Transport Museum, n.d.
• 'Free', National Poetry Library, n.d. Poster released in the context of the Commonwealth Poems on the Underground scheme.
• 'Merle Collins', Spoken Word Archive, n.d. Lists a series of performances by Merle Collins.

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