The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes (University of Notre Dame Press) by Cuban-American poet Victoria María Castells channels fairytale and folklore to report on the environmental crises gripping the Caribbean. An inventive blend of speculative and journalistic elements, this debut poetry collection centres Cuba’s landscape and history, remarking on generations of conquest, and the struggle for self-affirmation. The inherent complexities of a hybridised existence are explored in The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes: these poems contemplate exile and fragmented belonging.