Song Of Thieves

From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry, published in the US and UK, most recently Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2018 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her work has been pu

Generous with grief and sweetness.... Simplicity isn't easy and honesty is harder, but McCallum's verse and voice are completely honest. These are poems you cannot turn down.-Carol Frost; ""In these spare, sensuous, and lyrical poems, McCallum seeks to explore love and loss by navigating the bridge which joins the one to the other.""-Maurya Simon; ""Opens a whole new world.... Reading this book is testament to the sustaining fire of poetry.""-Ray Gonzalez