One Small SagaOriginally published by Coffee House Press in 1984, One Small Saga is one of Bobbie Louise Hawkins most personal and haunting autobiographical novels. [Original jacket copy:] In the early 1950s, a young Albuquerque bride accompanies her husband back to his family home in Denmark, then to London and the British colonies of Jamaica and British Honduras [now Belize]. The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while

skewed love poems like ‘Plans with the Unmet Wife’

a meticulousness of construction

stories which can now be told

including Collected Poems (Dedalus

in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history

quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening

Most of them started publishing their work after the country achieved independence in 1991

the complexity and ironies

Photo of Author Barbara Frenz with Henry Grimes

and publishes a poem from the late Matt Simpson

In the latest edition of this much-loved anthology

We are thrilled to be able to bring you this limited edition pamphlet featuring eight of the poems that are forthcoming in Sumita Chakraborty’s debut collection Arrow (Carcanet UK Alice James US