Preloading

Providential

By Colin Channer

Publisher: Akashic Books
Pages: 96

The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss and recovery in the wake of colonialism.

— Natalie Beach

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