New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Stephen Sexton whose direct and pure lyric

whose direct and pure lyric brings us

‘Her lucid and quiet

notable women such as Mahalia Jackson share pages with the less well noted - women like Sandra Bland

the poems in Mark Roper’s new collection play a series of variations on how we perceive and try to connect with the ‘more-than-human’ world

New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Stephen Sexton whose direct and pure lyricHurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of Jamaica, Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement. Senior's poems are delicate, formally playful and always finely observed, whether