Renewal Format:Paperback

Renewal Format:PaperbackMuch admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir is published here for the first time. Often visionary, these poems contain such images as fireflies heave for heaven and you filled this cluttered room like a handful of clove. Published in only a few anthologies during his life, this posthumous collection at last brings to our attention a voice too long unknown. Islander vii I shall see you through the cold

meaning “I play the fox

Each spooky story features a compelling array of theatrical characters

A multi-million selling artist and musical trailblazer

Audre Lorde

and this study of McLean is – like Workout

Also: poems by Henri-Michel Yéré

A sonorous celebration of language and place

Nicky Burkett finds his childhood friend Vinnie dead at the bottom of a tower block

Featuring poems from James Brookes

strives to find her place in a new environment that is quick to dismiss her

is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child’s wish

necessary in the age of climate catastrophe as outgrowth of colonial violence