Renewal

St Lucia’s Irvin Desir’s posthumous collection reveals a visionary, elliptical voice long overlooked.

Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir (1954-2024) is published here for the first time. Often visionary and elliptical, these poems include images such as “fireflies heave for heaven” and “you filled this cluttered room like a handful of clove.” Published in only a few anthologies during his life, this posthumous collection at last brings ...