Mother Muse by Lorna Goodison Hera Lindsay Bird of cheeky and lovable students

of cheeky and lovable students

Winner of the James Laughlin Award)

Vuong writes about the most profound subjects – love and loss

That phrase is so often a cliche

Rather than lamenting the impossibility of reproducing any language’s unique knots of form and content in translation

Mother Muse by Lorna Goodison Hera Lindsay Bird of cheeky and lovable students'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally,' Simon Armitage declared, when she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2019. 'Through poems rooted in her Caribbean heritage and upbringing she has created a body of enchanting, intelligent and socially aware poetry in the authentic registers of her own tongue.'Her poems have always found voices for the