Witness in Stone (Peepal Tree), the latest collection by Barbados Poet Laureate Esther Phillips, “explores the fragile territory between remembering and forgetting, both as an individual experience and in the life of a society.” “Phillips’ poems are always lucid and musical,” writes the publisher. “They gain a rewarding complexity from being part of the collection’s careful architecture that offers a richly nuanced inner dialogue about the meaning of experience in time.”