In Orbit
Infused
A rhapsody of gyres
Insinuates scintilla
Igniting flesh in a relay
Flash flare sear flame
lnploded
Crackling of darkness
Rubbing on darkness
Vertiginous In a vault
A horror of heights unknown
Revealed in an electric instant.
A moment
of nothingness
of terror
of stardom.
Stanley French
New World Journal provides insights into the birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region's most influential intellectual movements. Presented online, they constitute an invaluable record of significant intellectual expressions and political developments in the Anglophone Caribbean in the early post-colonial period. In all, 14 issues of the physical journal appeared between 1963 and 1972.