Virgula Samuel DavidIn Virgula, Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark; it stops the stillness and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every poem, as if she were a goddess, friend or lover, someone who offers space when the emptiness becomes too heavy. Virgula received the Awater Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize
The narratives are steeped in Caribbean storytelling traditions which Shillingord exploits to deliver penetrating insights on the joys and sorrows of life
stunned by the awful things that men have put forth into the world
Using true stories from her own family annals
Chronicling a history of punks at war
The daughter of a soldier
and a microcosm of the Caribbean in the 21st Century emerges
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the unfinished houses menace the inhabitants as they become occupied by people on the fringes of society whom the crash has destroyed
with appreciation from Amjad Nasser
‘A riveting collection of stories
Conceptually and emotionally compelling
A swirling mystery in which mathematical proof is always just out of reach
