In the Forests of Freedom Format:Paperback exploring the concept of hybrid

exploring the concept of hybrid forms and their capacity to reach audiences excluded by the exclusively literary

it could be seen as an astringent critique of the top-down authoritarianism of nationalist politics

seeking solace in the control of the classical metre and vision of the master poets who preceded him

In her first major collection for a decade

In the Forests of Freedom Format:Paperback exploring the concept of hybridThe Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominicas Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known until now. Written by Dominicas leading historian, In the Forests of Freedom is a stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people challenged the British