Lorna Goodison Books
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
The author shares the story of her mother's family, tracing their origins in a privileged parish community historically marked as a place through which runaway slaves escaped and describing her mot...
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By love possessed
This collection of short fiction, inviting readers into a world where people are in turn uplifted and undone by love, includes "The Helpweight," in which an accomplished woman must bear the burden...
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To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: POEMS
Goodison's is an original voice in contemporary poetry, drawing on both African and European inheritances and reminding us that African heritages in the New World are not exclusively those of Ameri...
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