In this collection of poems and short stories, Christine Craig brings the rhythms of Jamaica to the page - its beauty and complexity, its light and its shadows. Her voice, shaped by a lifetime lived on the island - from childhood wonder to adult reckoning - captures the richness of language forged by layered histories and a heritage of many strands. These pieces look closely at place and people, finding echoes that reach far beyond Jamaica’s shores. Clear-eyed about the terrors and smallnesses that scar human lives, yet always tuned to the possibility of joy, Craig’s work is both an act of witness and a celebration - of language, of resilience, of the urge to raise a voice and sing.