Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker instead of a card Danny Hayward has published books

Danny Hayward has published books of poetry with Materials

Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics

from colonial and gender-based trauma

in the poet’s eyes

standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend

Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker instead of a card Danny Hayward has published booksChristine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. Coco Island presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in comic scenes, ghost stories and vivid character sketches especially of girls and women Walker artfully lays bare how economic necessity, religious belief, illness and addiction reach far into the structures