Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice Ian Duhig ‘Ishion Hutchinson’s darkly tinged yet

‘Ishion Hutchinson’s darkly tinged yet exuberant new poems are the strongest to come out of the Caribbean in a generation

– Jonathan Edwards

Elsa Korneti

Julie Egdell never knew how much she had in common with Lewis Carroll’s Alice

belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers

Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice </b> Ian Duhig ‘Ishion Hutchinson’s darkly tinged yetPoetry Book Society Choice Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petits mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable creatures a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his children. From