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Poetry
Image: Paul Martin
The bulldog and the hummingbird
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEMS ON IDENTITY
Moving structurally from London to Jamaica, the collection traces the writer’s search for belonging and grapples with cultural eclecticism.
Peppered with condensed micro-poems, the work includes Jessica’s Aesthetica award shortlisted piece ‘reclamation’ and celebrates the diaspora as a space where new identities are forged and creativity emerges.