Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the CaribbeanHere is an opportunity to discover some of the best new, unpublished poets from the Caribbean. Meet Danielle Boodoo Fortune and her richly gothic take on love and its complications; Danielle Jennings exuberant narratives of family history and the struggles for respect between men and women; Ruel Johnsons often witty attempts to confront the insanity of contemporary Guyanas race wars and political corruption through the formal coolness of poetry;

and ask how we might come to live with them

his poems may ask as many questions as they answer

her language is direct and simple

When I stopped looking behind my back to see if anyone was following me to harm me

don’t weep

He has also published two novels and

His progress towards a better understanding of life is mirrored by his development as a writer

versions from the Aeneid and the Iliad

but he has tuberculosis

was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce four series of stamps (now available from Post & Go machines) featuring British birds

June 2015)

But the ‘Silent Holocaust’ of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal even by the standards of Central America