Contents
Title Page
Dedication
1
‘The Song of the Banana Man’ and ‘The Fiddler of Dooney’
2
A Taste of Honey
3
Some poems that made me
4
Nadine Gordimer Memorial Lecture
5
I-Land
6
Daffodil-bashing
7
The groom
8
Bush your yard
9
Redemption is the key
10
‘Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise’
11
My painted skirt like a scenic 78
12
The Caribbean imaginary, for Ifeona Fulani
13
A meditation on friendships past
14
Hurricanes
15
For Derek Walcott
16
Native(s) with the warmth
17
A vulgar upstart with ‘no right to aspire to poetry’
18
For Lee Jenkins – Cork
19
A party for Tarquin
20
Femme de la Martinique
21
The waterman
22
Parliament Street
23
Racism
24
For Keith Jarrett Rainmaker – Iowa City
25
People I’d like to meet
Original Sources and Permissions
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright