Bookshelf 2023: "simple, moving poems"

Ian McDonald, who spent his childhood in Antigua and his youth in Trinidad before settling in Guyana, remembers back eighty years [...] Like a man he once happened upon in a Guyana shop, “sweaty after toil, sipping an ice-cold beer,” holding in his other hand “bright sky-blue macaw feathers. / Quiet, gazing into the distance of his life” McDonald welcomes the reader to join him. These are simple, moving poems.