Bibliograph

Hurricane watch, new and collected poems, Olive Senior

Type

Label

Hurricane watch, new and collected poems, Olive Senior

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hurricane watch

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Olive Senior

Sub title

new and collected poems

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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