Celia A. Sorhaindo

Celia A. Sorhaindo was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica. She migrated with her family to England in 1976, when she was eight years old, returning home in 2005. She is co-compiler of Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return (Papillote Press, 2009), and author of the poetry collections Guabancex (Papillote Press, 2020), Radical Normalisation (Carcanet Press, 2022) and ABiYA (2023).

Cultivating My Own Tropical Garden

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Saturday 5pm, heat & light start their slow slink into earth. It is time to turn keen attention & tend to fiddling with my entropic backyard garden again. A recent health hobby, made climate- & life- change essential, in order to sustain us—I believe.

Priceless

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Saturday morning Roseau Market the air feels lightfresh cleanhot the river flowing unhindered to cool waiting sea. Birds hover then divedown peckingup thrownout food.

CrossIn (XIn) Into—Over the Kármán Line

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until all clock turnin hands tick still, time will tell one thing or another. now the news is a friction of flyinspark opinions. we clap or cringe

Child on My Back

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do some think poetry is the most important thing on earth and wilfully witness mortal beings and their lonely tears abandoned by a raging river and leave them

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