The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil In lyric poems

In lyric poems

the excerpt “Earthquake Nightmare” is particularly chilling

Karen McCarthy Woolf

was re-published as All This and Many a Dog

A cat that lives in the desert and never drinks

The Godmother and other Stories Karen McNeil In lyric poemsCovering more than four decades in the lives of Guyanese at home or in Britain and Canada, these stories have an intensive and rewarding inner focus on a character at a point of crisis. Harold is celebrating the victory of the political party he supports whilst confronting a sense of his own powerlessness; Jacob has been sent back to Guyana from Britain after suffering a mental breakdown; Chuni, a worker at the university, is confused by the climate