Christine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. Coco Island presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in comic scenes, ghost stories and vivid character sketches – especially of girls and women – Walker artfully lays bare how economic necessity, religious belief, illness and addiction reach far into the structures of family life and community. Piecing together the isolated lives of those left behind as the island modernises, her fearless, memorable poems chart the devastation of a world.
ISBN: | 9781800174009 |
Publication date: | 25th April 2024 |
Author: | Christine Roseeta Walker |
Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 128 pages |
Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |