Ground ProvisionsTaking us on a sensory journey across landscapes of the body and the earth, Ground Provisions traverses the natural world, moving from the Caribbean to North America, as it immerses readers in lush language and imagery that provoke questions about identity in the making of diasporas and the creation of multi ethnic realities. What remains and what is created anew? What emerges at the fissures of culture? What is learned from human relationships with

they speak about displacement

The poets in this collection span and represent different generations and narratives

drunkenness and bruised glory

having seen translations into Spanish

"The astonishingly acclomplished debut of a poet who will surely take his place among the very best of hisgeneration

‘I the Siren

Norman Jeffares the recent series of anthologies

Mixed feelings: what could be more British than that

who uses a panoply of vocabularies to evoke the medical

a consciousness acquiring bacterium and a sentient house – the infinite worlds of this story collection are further proof that Herrera is a writer of boundless talent

Certain to be one of the most read and talked-about poetry collections of the year

First published in Australia in 1974