The World After Rain: Anne’s Poem (McClelland & Stewart), the third collection of poems by St. Lucia-born Canisia Lubrin, is an “incandescent” elegy for the poet’s mother, meditating on love and grief, memory and history. “The poet refracts the realm of contemporary life to reveal the blistering paradox of its private and public entanglements,” says the publisher. Lubrin — winner of the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — continues to break through formal boundaries in these poems that speak to the biggest questions of our time in language both intimate and searching.