Peepal Tree Press Far district: poems, paperback/ishion hutchinson

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Award Name Literary Award Award category Poetry Description Creating an impressionistic portrait of the poet's boyhood in rural Jamaica, these narrative poems explore the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology.

Written in both traditional and formless verse, as well as in English and Jamaican patois, the book is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two worlds: one a benign culture of bush fol.