Kingston Buttercup

Overview

Jamaican poet, Ann Margaret Lim, follows her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Festival of Wild Orchid, with an exciting new volume, Kingston Buttercup, a work of fierce honesty, social awareness and lyric complexity. Bocas Poetry Prize winner, Loretta Collins Klobah, writes: "In Kingston Buttercup, her marvelous second book, Ann-Margaret Lim's fresh, honest, and tenderly-fierce perspective comes through in highly readable lyric poems."

Author Biography

Ann-Margaret Lim lives in Red Hills Jamaica. She has been published in journals, anthologies and her country's two major newspapers. She has a BA in English Literature and has benefitted from workshops conducted by Wayne Brown, Mervyn Morris and Kwame Dawes and the poetry of such greats as Derek Walcott.