New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Rebecca Elson In The Dark Room: Letters

In The Dark Room: Letters to Krista

Given only a modicum of imagination and lack of object permanence we might have found something poignant in the last messages from the Mars Rovers

And she does it with wide range

in poems of a deeply personal nature

and in portraits of village life from a distinctly hot and sensual climate: "His cielo is yeast / that swells the heart // of a brioche

New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior Rebecca Elson In The Dark Room: LettersHurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of Jamaica, Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement. Senior's poems are delicate, formally playful and always finely observed, whether