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Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets
Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of Jamaica, Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement.
Senior's poems are delicate, formally playful and always finely observed, whether responding to Jamaican birdlife, the larger natural world or the traces of a complicated historical inheritance. Often, and always surprisingly, her poems' brilliant descriptions and vivid, gripping narratives open out into ecological reflections, politics and culture in original, surprising and sensuous ways.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800172173 |
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| Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited |
| Publication date: | 03/31/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 456 |
| File size: | 819 KB |
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Table of Contents
Shell (2007)
Gastropoda 15
Shell Out
Hatch 19
Maize 20
Shelter 22
Garden Snail 23
Taíno Genesis 24
Cassava/Yuca 26
Skin 27
Pearl 28
The Skin of the Earth 29
Sailor's Valentine 30
Canoe Ocean 31
Hurricanes 32
Lucea Harbour 33
The Song that it Sings 34
Shell Blow
Shell Blow 39
Send the Fool a Little Further 45
Shell Shock
Quashie's Song 49
Peppercorn 50
Sweet 52
Bwoy 52
Cane Gang 55
West India Cane Piece Rat (1821) 56
Canefield Surprised by Emptiness 58
Walking on Eggs 59
What Could Be Written on a Grain of Rice 60
Fishing in the Waters Where My Dreams Lie 61
At the Slavery Museum 63
Picture 64
Shelter
Found Poem Regarding Archaeological Concerns 67
Join-the-Dots 68
Shell 70
The First House 71
S(h)ift 72
Empty Shell
A Superficial Reading 77
The Poetics of a West India Dinner Party 79
Auction 81
Over the Roofs of the World (2005)
The Pull of Birds 91
1 A Little Bird Told Me…
The Secret of Capturing Parrot 95
The Secret of Taming Parrot 96
The Secret of Turning Green Parrot Yellow 97
The Secret of Flying Close to the Sun without Melting Wings 98
The Secret of Crusoe's Parrot 100
The Ultimate Secret 103
Yard Fowl 104
Hummingbird 107
Woodpecker 108
Parakeet 109
Magpie 110
Peacock Tale, 1 113
Peacock Tale, 2 114
Albatross 116
Emperor Penguin 117
Ostrich 118
The Dance of Cranes 119
2 Islanded
Allspice 123
Discovery 124
The Birth of Islands 125
Message in a Bottle 126
Thirteen Ways of Looking At Blackbird 127
Misreading Wallace Stevens 130
Rejected Text for a Tourist Brochure 133
Missing 135
Here And There 137
Blue 138
Leaving Home 140
Lost Tropic 141
Blue Magic Carpet 142
Moon 144
Wild Nester 145
3 Penny Reel
With My Little Eye… 153
Riddle 155
Embroidery 156
Penny Reel 158
White 162
Lacemaker 165
Pearl Diver 167
Basketmaker 169
Bird-Man / Bird-Woman 170
Ode To Pablo Neruda* 171
Gardening in the Tropics (1994)
Gourd 187
Travellers' Tales
Meditation on Yellow 191
Hurricane Story, 1903 199
Moonshine Dolly 202
Hurricane Story, 1944 204
Cat's Cradle 208
Caribbean Basin Initiative 209
Hurricane Story, 1951 215
Illegal Immigrant 224
Stowaway 225
Meditation on Red 226
Hurricane Story, 1988 236
All Clear, 1928 238
Nature Studies
Plants 245
Starapple 247
Pineapple 248
Madam Fate 250
Fern 251
Mountain Pride 252
Sun and Moon 253
Snail 254
Guava 255
Guava/2 256
Guinep 257
Anatto and Guinep 258
Pawpaw 261
Bamboo (In Five Variations) 262
Gardening in the Tropics
Brief Lives 269
My Father's Blue Plantation 270
Finding Your Stone 272
The Knot Garden 273
The Colours of Birds 275
The Tree of Life 278
Seeing the Light 280
Amazon Women 283
Tropic Love 286
The Immovable Tenant 287
Gardening on the Run 293
Advice and Devices 298
Mystery
Marassa: Divine Twins 305
Obatala: Father of Wisdom 306
Osanyin: God Of Herbalism 307
Ososi: God of Hunting 308
Ogun: God of Iron 309
Shango: God of Thunder 311
Orunmilla: God of Divination 314
Babalu: Lord of the Earth 315
Oya: Goddess of the Wind 317
Olokun: God of the Deep Ocean 318
Yemoja: Mother of Waters 321
Guédé: Lord Of The Dead 324
Talking of Trees (1985)
Homescape 329
Birdshooting Season 330
Cockpit Country Dreams 331
Prayer 335
Drought 336
Ancestral Poem 337
To My Arawak Grandmother 339
Searching for Grandfather 340
Touchstone 342
Poltergeist 343
Hill Country 345
Eighth Birthday 347
Portrait 348
One Night, the Father 350
Childhood 352
Colonial Girls School 353
Nansi 'Tory 355
X 358
Nature Studies I 359
Nature Studies II 362
Epitaph 364
Revelation 365
Song of the Cave Valley Man 366
Song of the House 368
Funeral Song 369
Letter from the Lesser World 371
Cropover 374
Concrete City 376
Madman at Traffic Lights 377
To the Madwoman in My Yard 379
And What of the Headlines? 380
Apartment Life 382
Green Parakeets 384
Albert Street 385
Rain 386
City Poem 388
The Scavenger 390
The Mother 391
The Lady 393
The Victim 395
The Dispatcher 396
Reaching My Station 399
Children's Hospital 402
Talking Of Trees 403
Eyed: New and Uncollected Poems
Fabulous Eyelids 411
Eye Wash 412
Eye-Water 413
Eyelet/Aiglet 414
Out/In 415
Sure Shot 416
Killer Bees 417
White Night 418
Hurricane Watch 420
'Warning: Keep Away from the Cliffs' 421
Cruise Ship Leaving Port at Night 422
Dead Straight 423
Guava Jelly Score 425
Green Bush Green Bush Green Bush 426
Grand-Daughter Learns the Alphabet 428
Hook 429
They're Stoning the Mango Tree Again 430
Christmas Pudding 431
Country Funeral 432
Flight 433
Greenhorn 434
Persephone 435
The Drought 437
The Eye of Everything 440
Poem Without Ending… 445
Notes to the Poems 449
List of Illustrations 452
Index Of Poem Titles 453