New
Looting Hummingbirds
Selected Poems of Daniel Thaly
Poet of Dominica
Edited by Mark Andrews
and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
£12.99
ISBN 9781739130398
Paperback
Publication date: March 2026
”Thaly’s islands vividly inscribe themselves in his treasured ‘blue panorama of poetry’ where the complexities of a Caribbean life inflected according to class, colour and race, and marked by rooting, uprooting and tentative re-rootings are simultaneously revealed and concealed.”
— Maria Cristina Fumagalli
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