Ship Shape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845230586)

Focusing on a sense of duty--to record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the differences that prejudice may interpose between private and public selves--this rich collection of poetry hinges upon a sequence of poems that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean to the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. Drawing connections between present-day