Guaracara (Carcanet Press) by Fawzia Muradali Kane focuses on Indo-Caribbean experience, distilled in poems that speak of sugar cane and oil refinery histories in Trinidad. In the13-poem movement ‘Let Us Mourn the Death of King Sugar’, the reader is addressed by the collective voice of King Sugar itself, speaking directly and often in dramatic resonances to those who have survived the legacies of cane. Guaracara follows Kane’s 2011 collection, Tantie Diablesse, which was shortlisted in the poetry category of the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The poems in Guaracara serve as redoubtable successors to Kane’s first book.