Coco Island
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1800174004
ISBN-13
9781800174009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Poetry
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2024
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
150 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 21.60 x 1.20 cms
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Coco Island is an integrous first collection from the Jamaican poet and novelist Christine Roseeta Walker, exploring the bittersweet effects of a postcolonial world.
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025Shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature 2025Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025Christine 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.
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