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Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Forward (Jerwood) Prize for Best First Collection 2025
A Poetry Book Society Commendation

'How the noise in my head grows and grows,
splinters into phantoms and shapes,

graceless muses for her cot-mobile.
How I terror.'

Moving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how p...