Renewal [Paperback]

St Lucias Irvin Desirs posthumous collection reveals a visionary, elliptical voice long overlooked.Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir (1954-2024) is published here for the first time. Often visionary and elliptical, these poems include images such as fireflies heave for heaven and you filled this cluttered room like a handful of clove. Published in only a few anthologies during his life, this posthumous collection at last brings to our attention a voice too long unknown.Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir (1954-2024) is published here for the first time. Often visionary and elliptical, these poems include images such as fireflies heave for heaven and you filled this cluttered room like a handful of clove.GB