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Award-winning poet and novelist Dawes's (Bivouac) latest poetry collection takes its title from one of the earliest free villages in post-slavery Jamaica. It feels almost Yeatsian with its haunted past, and like Yeats with his tower, Dawes depicts a journey to an ancestral home in quiet, lyrical, sometimes painful poems, exploring the memories of a lifetime. In a sense, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More