Plainspeak Jo Brandon

Plainspeak Jo BrandonPlainspeak is the highly anticipated second collection by Astrid Alben, following her acclaimed debut Ai! Ai! Pianissimo. In these startling poems, readers will experience Albens unorthodox alter ego thinking out louder approach with the same exhilaration as they might engage with art or jazz. The poems in Plainspeak deal with place, ancestral ties, solitude, flight, insomnia and the embattled absurdities of daily life. Alben plays with formal

Pam Thompson and David Underdown

She teaches Caribbean Literature at the University of Maryland

a ‘man with no more substance than a pencil drawing

And I just don’t know why

Join her campaign for the liberation of poetry from all that is dry

‘Things My Dance Teacher Used to Say’

and shows how a contemporary generation of critics is rediscovering his real merits – the quality of his prose

its landscape

Bob Moncur

he has never led his armies into battle and craves the protection of the legendary breastplate before he takes the field

art and architecture

poet and graphic designer of Bajan/Afrikan/English heritage