<p>A Poetry Book Society Commendation<br>'How the noise in my head grows and grows,<br><br>splinters into phantoms and shapes,<br>graceless muses for her cot-mobile.<br><br>How I terror.'<br>Moving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how past dysfunction, tyranny and terror structure th...