A SENSE OF ARRIVAL

Kevin Adonis Browne's A Sense of Arrival (Duke University Press, 2025) constructs a new form, what Browne calls “Caribbean nonfiction,” weaving essay, memoir, autotheory, verse, documentary photography, portraiture, and sculpture into a single sustained argument about how the Black Caribbean self comes into being.
Audain Studios documented the original works featured in the book during its exhibition at Medulla Art Gallery, Woodbrook, alongside the Port of Spain launch in April 2025. The photography captures Browne's object essays and visual installations, while the accompanying film records the author reading “Breath,” one of the book's central texts. Browne is the author of HIGH MAS: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture, the first non-fiction work to win the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2019), and A Sense of Arrival is currently shortlisted for the 2026 Bocas Prize.