White Rum and Coconut Water

White Rum and Coconut Water explores Jamaican iconography, from ancestral musings to a millennial gaze on love, loss and black identity. "Polished Wife" and "Talented Woman" were previously published in a commemorative edition of Interviewing the Caribbean honouring the work of Sylvia Wynter, 2022. "2000 acres of Paradise", "April's Curtain Call", "Miss Jamaica", "Summer Came in December" and "Livity" received awards in the 2022 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's National Festival of the Arts Creative Writing Competition commemorating the 60th anniversary of Jamaica's independence. "Soon come" is adapted in a collaborative digital art installation Out of the Box (2022) with artist Garfield of London. "My Girl" accompanies dance duet Evergreen (2023) choreographed by Marlon Simms, Artistic Director of Jamaica's National Dance Theatre Company, performed by L'Acadco A United Caribbean dance Force. White Rum and Coconut Water is Corthesy's third anthology preceded by Fried Green Plantains (2017 Nasara Publishing) and Sky Juice (2021 Ian Randle Publishers). http: //www.whiterumandcoconutwater.com