And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

Shaped by Velma Pollard’s sense of her Jamaican homeland’s difficult history and unparalleled natural beauties, this poetry collection reaches the heart of Caribbean tragedy, both political and personal, without sentimentality, stridency, or loss of hope. With a finger on the pulse of change during the past four decades, these poems celebrate what is enduring through a conversational and thought-provoking female voice. Recording the experience of travel and the moments at rest when there is space for contemplation, the poet not only reflects upon the inequalities of race and gender, but also writes with authenticity on the contemporary experiences of Jamaican and Caribbean life.

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And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

Shaped by Velma Pollard’s sense of her Jamaican homeland’s difficult history and unparalleled natural beauties, this poetry collection reaches the heart of Caribbean tragedy, both political and personal, without sentimentality, stridency, or loss of hope. With a finger on the pulse of change during the past four decades, these poems celebrate what is enduring through a conversational and thought-provoking female voice. Recording the experience of travel and the moments at rest when there is space for contemplation, the poet not only reflects upon the inequalities of race and gender, but also writes with authenticity on the contemporary experiences of Jamaican and Caribbean life.

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And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

by Velma Pollard
And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems

by Velma Pollard

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Shaped by Velma Pollard’s sense of her Jamaican homeland’s difficult history and unparalleled natural beauties, this poetry collection reaches the heart of Caribbean tragedy, both political and personal, without sentimentality, stridency, or loss of hope. With a finger on the pulse of change during the past four decades, these poems celebrate what is enduring through a conversational and thought-provoking female voice. Recording the experience of travel and the moments at rest when there is space for contemplation, the poet not only reflects upon the inequalities of race and gender, but also writes with authenticity on the contemporary experiences of Jamaican and Caribbean life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845232092
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date: 05/01/2013
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Velma Pollard is a writer, a researcher, and an educator from Jamaica. She is the author of several books, including The Best Philosophers I Know Can’t Read and Write, Considering Woman I & II, Crown Point and Other Poems, and Shame Trees Don't Grow Here. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize for her novella Karl.

Table of Contents

From Crow Point

Crown Point 11

National Heroes 1980 13

Sunday Thoughts 14

Fisherman 15

Bud/Unbudded 16

Bird Kiss 17

Moods 18

Fly 20

After Cages 22

Anansa 24

Deja Vue 26

Hindsight II 27

Screws Loose 28

British Museum and After 29

Remembering Washington DC 31

Belize Suite 33

Impressions Havana 1979 36

Long Mountain 41

Susu 44

Our Mother 45

To Gran… and No Farewell 47

From Shams Trees Don't Crow Here

Heathrow in Retrospect 51

Drake's Strait Remembered 52

Road to Harriman Upstate NY 53

Harriman Revisited I & II 56

My Daughter Resembles… 59

Bag Woman 60

Lion 61

After Rodney 63

Conversation 65

Caret Bay 1 & 2 67

Heaven's Cherubim High Horsed… 69

Journey and Fractals 71

At RAW, Sunday 73

Conversation (Again?) 74

From The Best Philosophers I know Can't Read or Write

After Heartease New England (for Lorna) 79

The Best Philosophers I Know Can't Read or Write 80

Marine Turtle 84

Bird 86

Name 88

Woman in Goteborg 91

Night-Flowering Cactus 93

Old Age 94

A Kind of Dying 95

A Scientist Speaks of Relationships 98

Armageddon Needn't be a War 99

Maya/Chichen Itza 101

Bridges 103

Eldorado 104

After Tortola 105

From Leaving Traces

Portobello 109

Thinking Re-thinking the Baths 112

Montserrat I: Old Town 117

At the Hortobagy 119

Trento I-IV 121

Cut Language 127

It is the Dying Time 129

Schistosoma 130

While TV Towers Burn: I-IV 131

War Child 138

Messiah 140

While the Sap Flows 141

View up through her Window 142

Clouds 143

Fall Leaves 144

Confessions of Son 146

With Thanks 147

New Poems

After 'Furious Flower' 2004 151

Country Music 154

Stokeley 156

At Cienfuegos I & II 157

Penny Reel Girl Chile 162

After Lamour 164

Lethal Yellowing 166

Words 167

After 'Limber Like Me' 168

My Husband, His Mistress Lies Dying 170

Ego 171

Not in the Loo 173

Sugar Sweet 174

I Confuse 175

Prohibited to Talk About 176

In the House of Memory 179

Caret Bay (Again?) 182

Estate Home 184

Roads 185

Benedictus 187

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