Coco Island

by Christine Roseeta Walker

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800174004
• ISBN13: 9781800174009
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 128 Pages