What makes Heart / Land

both rewarding and challenging are the contrasting landscapes (ranging from the Guyana rainforest through Caribbean islands to the islets of the Bermuda atoll) and the poems' frank celebration of the diversity of language and life of the Caribbean / South American world.

The poems move, in a variety of poetic styles, between the threat of global disaster (Leaf, Summit) and the healing nature of landscape and love (Fall, Saint Lucy, Mother/Nature).

The complex scenarios of life from childhood to adulthood and old age are all sketched within the challenging embrace of their landscapes.