Kelsi Delaney

Spoken Word and Gender-based Violence Education among Adolescent Girls in Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Quarterly, 2024

This article examines spoken word poetry created by adolescents participating in gender-based vio... more This article examines spoken word poetry created by adolescents participating in gender-based violence (GBV) education in Trinidad and Tobago. It situates the spoken word poetry methodology used in workshops with adolescents within the wider fields of GBV prevention, arts-based methodologies and youth engagement. This methodology was created for a collaborative research project “Representing Gender-based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean”, which aimed to produce a spoken word, theatre-based facilitation model for peer-education on issues of GBV in the lives of adolescents.1

Form in contemporary anglophone Caribbean poetry

This thesis offers the first extended form-led exploration of contemporary anglophone Caribbean p... more This thesis offers the first extended form-led exploration of contemporary anglophone Caribbean poetry by emerging and established writers from across the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. The thesis highlights and explores five key areas of growth and significance in anglophone Caribbean poetic form: metaphoric representations of poetic form, notions of received form and the sonnet, the limits of poetic expression and prose poetry, expansions of poetic expression and multiple-form poetry, and poetic medium and oral poetries. Through detailed close readings of poems by over twenty-five poets, I observe the technical breadth of contemporary Caribbean poetry, drawing attention to the innovative aesthetic practises of contemporary Caribbean writers. The thesis argues that contemporary Caribbean poets frequently put their aesthetic strategies and inclinations under critical scrutiny within their poetry, and that seemingly aesthetic aspects of poetry, such as its form, can encode nuanced...

Spoken Word and Gender-based Violence Education among Adolescent Girls in Trinidad and Tobago

by Gabrielle Hosein and Kelsi Delaney

Caribbean Quarterly, 2024

This article examines spoken word poetry created by adolescents participating in gender-based vio... more This article examines spoken word poetry created by adolescents
participating in gender-based violence (GBV) education in Trinidad and
Tobago. It situates the spoken word poetry methodology used in workshops
with adolescents within the wider fields of GBV prevention, arts-based
methodologies and youth engagement. This methodology was created for
a collaborative research project “Representing Gender-based Violence:
Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean”,
which aimed to produce a spoken word, theatre-based facilitation model
for peer-education on issues of GBV in the lives of adolescents.1
The article frames the cultural significance of oral traditions including
spoken word poetry in the Caribbean context and the issues of GBV that
impact adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago. In collaboration with the
University of Leicester, the Institute for Gender and Development Studies
(IGDS) at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies,
and the community organisation, ROOTS Foundation, the research project
set out to facilitate young people’s exploration of GBV through spoken
word poetry. This arts-based methodology (ABM) was chosen because of
its cultural relevance, popularity among youth, and links with political
activism in the Caribbean.

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