Days and Nights of the Blue Iguana

By Heather Royes

POETRY

72 Pages, 5 1/4 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $22.95)

Publication Date: September 2005

ISBN 9781845230197

Rights: US & CA

Peepal Tree Press Ltd. (Sep 2005)

Price:	$17.95

Overview

Jamaica is the thematic epicenter of this compassionate, painterly collection of poems about the islands of the Caribbean and beyond. The story of the Ancestors—a nomadic family that wanders up and down Jamaica—is related with a breathtaking descriptiveness that uncovers both love and exasperation for the tropical island. This collection also contains a selection of the most popular poems from the author's first book of poetry, The Caribbean Raj.

Reviews

"Ms. Royes is a considerable poet and an important interpreter of the modern Jamaican experience . . . Her poems are laden with multiple meanings or levels. They move backwards, forwards, and sideways through [the Caribbean’s] linguistic, cultural, and historical continuums." —Kenneth Ramchand

Author Biography

Heather Royes is an HIV/AIDS consultant and a poet whose work is featured in such anthologies as the Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry, the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, and the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse.

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