At Bocas 2016, Colin Robinson, poet, journalist and human rights activist, launched his long-awaited debut collection, You Have You Father Hard Head.“In poems of generous vulnerability and intimacy, Robinson captures the voice of boys on whose spirits and “hard heads” their mothers live out the memory of their fathers. Robinson’s verse, which is acutely aware of the troubled history of race, politics and identity in Caribbean society, is taut, ironic, and richly evocative of various landscapes and cultures that have shaped him over the years. Uniquely, and importantly, You Have You Father Hard Head, broke new ground in Caribbean poetry as it explores with distinctively Caribbean candour, wit and irony themes of sexual love between men and views of life with HIV. This collection contains poetry of admirable honesty and acute self-awareness.”
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