Dante’s Inferno: A New Translation (Carcanet Press), by former Poet Laureate of Jamaica Lorna Goodison reconstitutes the 14th century narrative, so it is told in both Jamaican Patois and Jamaican English. Goodison’s Dante proceeds through the caverns of the underworld, guided by none other than the iconic Louise Bennett, “Miss Lou”. Other inspiring and well-known figures line the pathways of this Dante’s travels, too: Derek Walcott himself makes a striking appearance, alongside an assembly of raconteurs, politicians, and storytellers. This new translation, a work 25 years in the making, radically reframes an Anglophone literary classic in an undaunted Caribbean construction.