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Poetry Pamphlet Guabancex Published by Papillote Press

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Thanks to Papillote Press for doing such a great job with publishing my hurricane Maria themed poetry pamphlet collection called Guabancex and to a whole list of other people too, for their love, support and encouragement. Special thanks to St. Lucian poet John Robert Lee for his kind words on the back cover “A new voice that speaks with sensitivity, maturity and assurance out of a horrendous experience. The final poem Hurricane PraXis (Xorcising Maria Xperience) is a tour de…

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Accent Stress and SIDS

Poetry

Thanks to The Caribbean Writer for publishing Accent Stress and SIDS in Volume 31 February 2017. The original published poems can be read in a sample of the magazine on-line Pages 87-89. The latest versions of the poems are below.…

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Gutter Secrets

Poetry

My Gutter Secrets photo story won the Photo Storytelling category in the Nature Island Literary Festival and Book Fair Writing Competition 2015. Check out the image collages here. The latest version of the poem, renamed Lazarus, is below.…

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Locket and Creation

Poetry

Thanks to Moko Magazine for publishing two of my poems Gathering Ghosts and Giving Birth in July 2015. You can read the published versions here Moko Magazine Poems. Giving Birth was one of the first poems I wrote. It simmered for months in my head and was born pretty much painlessly, without putting up too much of a fight. Very few poems are like this for me. The latest versions of the poems are below.…

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