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Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is on of the most compelling voices in American poetry. In her second collection Song of Thieves she artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean…
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The latest poetry collection by Shara McCallum explores womanhood and mental illness.
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A poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile’s struggle to reconcile the influences of the homeland and the adopted country.
In musical, evocative language, her poems imagine the what-if-that-almost-was of Scotland's best-loved Bard, following Robert Burns into the life he might have lived as a plantation overseer in Jamaica-then seeing…
Poems progress through the wilds of the mind and memory, dispatching parables, and challenging of the myth of self.
Historically-based poems explore an alternate past of Robert Burns and the troubling facts about Scottish slavery in Jamaica.
In This Strange Land, mother is an island treading water, a buoyed homeland beyond her homeland.
Lyrical and well-crafted, this collection of poetry presents some of Jamaican poet Shara McCallum s best work. While touching upon various topicsincluding migration, identity, family relationships, motherhood, mental illness, storytelling…
