You Have You Father Hard Head

Colin Robinson’s long-awaited debut collection, You Have You Father Hard Head, represents a nuanced but unswerving engagement with desire and intimacy as he explores what it means to be a Caribbean son negotiating the complexities of relationships between men. In poems of generous vulnerability and intimacy, Robinson captures the voice of boys on whose spirits and “hard heads” their mothers live out the memory of their fathers.

Colin Robinson's poetry has appeared in Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters (2003), Caribbean Erotic: Poetry, Prose, & Essays (2011), The Caribbean Writer (2014), and others. Currently he works with CAISO in Trinidad & Tobago, and in the past with the Audre Lorde Project, Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders & Sexualities, Center for Gay & Lesbian Studies, Gay Men of African Descent, GMHC, New York City Board of Education AIDS Advisory Council, Rainbow Repertory Theater, Trinidad & Tobago Office of the Chief Personnel Officer and Ministry of Labour, OutRight Action International, and University of the West Indies.