New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Stephen Sexton reckoning with the nuances of

reckoning with the nuances of America's

pervading human being

whose direct and pure lyric brings us

 Guided by humour

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Stephen Sexton reckoning with the nuances ofHurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of Jamaica, Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement. Senior's poems are delicate, formally playful and always finely observed, whether