Art & Leisure

If you think you know it all about love, marriage, romance and sex, well, think again! For, Dr Dennis G. Grant has a one-year book telling you how to get them right. In Love, Marriage, Romance & Sex - Getting it Right!, the Jamaica-born pastor, known as 'Love Doc', and residing in South Florida, in the United States, has laid it all down on the table, rather, the bed, telling it as if it were the gospel truth.

Commonwealth Writers has announced shortlists for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and three writers from Jamaica are among the lot.

They have taken my identity

High-profile presenters at next weekend's Kingston Pon Di River literature, music and art festival, Jonathan Eig and Charlie Newton, will be hosting a writer's workshop for members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) who want to hone their creative talent and learn the ropes of authorship and the publishing world.

The prowess, proficiency and potency of unquestionably one of the most outstanding educational secondary organisations in Jamaica, is adequately detailed in the latest edition of former senator and statesman Anthony Johnson's The Brave may Fall but never Yield: History of Kingston College 1925-2006.

Jamaican Professor Kwame Dawes has been awarded the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. One of the most prestigious fellowships in the world, it was established in 1925 and intended for men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creativity in the arts.

United Kingdom-based (and Jamaica-born) poet Ita Gooden has found herself on the starting blocks with the Olympics fast approaching, but she won't be making any dashes for a medal. Instead, the qualified nurse and midwife will be putting poetry into motion after winning a chance to write a verse for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Title: In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of 'Animal House

I fell prostrate before the potentate of time

I have never in my life felt this way