Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker instead of a card in the poet’s eyes

in the poet’s eyes

Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics

surreal in the tradition of Rimbaud’s Illuminations

infused with David’s knowledge of myth and folklore

Danny Hayward has published books of poetry with Materials

Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker instead of a card in the poet’s eyesChristine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. Coco Island presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in comic scenes, ghost stories and vivid character sketches especially of girls and women Walker artfully lays bare how economic necessity, religious belief, illness and addiction reach far into the structures