The Garden of Forgetting Poems of Love and

A distinctive new voice in Caribbean poetry emerges in this collection of poems that explore the life-shattering loss of a father and a husband. The relationship between inner feelings and the physical environment figures prominently as the poems, written in standard English and traditional verse forms, incorporate intensely Jamaican details and metaphors. Poems set in England mourn, for instance, the absence of the subtleties of evening light in Jamaica and reveal the speaker's struggles with facing different kinds of loss.

Gwyneth Barber Wood

Voices from the garden of forgetting	p. 7
The verandah	p. 9
Black locust	p. 10
Vincent	p. 11
Vincent #2	p. 12
Infinity	p. 13
Easter	p. 14
Father	p. 15
The fan palm	p. 16
Autumn	p. 17
Sunday morning	p. 18
Reflection	p. 19
Black Tuesday	p. 20
The abyss	p. 21
Courage - after the 6.00 p.m. news	p. 22
Suzi V.	p. 23
Sorrow's eve	p. 24
Old strains	p. 25
The trial	p. 26
The blank screen	p. 27
The wretched	p. 28
The yucca	p. 29
Old age	p. 30
Bristol boy	p. 31
Spring	p. 33
The brine of loss	p. 34
That summer	p. 35
Smith's cove	p. 36
Paradise's paradox	p. 37
The artist	p. 38
Cat	p. 40
Remembering Thira	p. 41
The covenant	p. 42
A day at San Piper	p. 43
A light left on	p. 44
Old friend	p. 45
Time	p. 46
For auld lang syne	p. 47
The dancer	p. 48
Magnolia	p. 49
White gardenia	p. 50
Solstice moon	p. 51
Jerusalem thorn	p. 52
Letter	p. 53
The garden of forgetting	p. 54
Waiting for the train	p. 55
The clown	p. 56
Guyana season	p. 57
Guyana gold	p. 58
Crescent moon	p. 59
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