The story of the rise and fall of the Caliban stock has been meticulously documented for over four hundred years now: written in biographies, enacted on stage, painted in inks, recited in poetry, recorded on film, scholarized before and now behind firewalls, sung in song.

Literally deformed, abandoned, brutalised, without destination, cave-dwelling, monstrous, dwarfish, feline, a thing of darkness, unfinished, salvage (the l is silent), slave (the l not silent), displaced, superstitious, amphibian, on the move, foul-mouthed, of grotesque birth, dispersed, mooncalf, changeling – how different would history have to be for Caliban to edit the “Argosy”? 

Hello, my name is Anil Persaud, I&I is the Editor of The “Argosy” Press, the Editor is not Caliban – that is to say, the Editor is an actual, living person and not a fictional character. [3/10/21] This may also be taken as informing the Editorial practice of the Press.[2]

In keeping with our publishing agenda, the status of authors, however, by their own accounts, remain subject to their interdisciplinary deliberations.