Bookshelf 2023: "Intimate, conversational, a pleasure to read"

...the first set of poems is about love for her dark-skinned mother, who lies dying in Yorkshire, then honoring her by planting herbs for “the only Martinican woman in the graveyard of St Chads.” Later, poems about becoming a mother and her own racial identity, the girl/woman who is routinely asked “Where are you from, really?” [...] She begs Anansi—she has written two books about him and other tricksters—“Entangle me. Story me.” And finally, poems about marital love [...] and about remembering, about climbing hills, and about long-ago schooldays. Intimate, conversational, a pleasure to read.