With characteristic lack of preamble, Louise Bennett leaps from the pages of this excellent selection of her poems. Less baleful but every bit as compelling as the Ancient Mariner, she catches the reader’s attention at once and carries him along on the tide of her vitality. Whether she arrests us with a hand on the shoulder (“But Goverment fas, eeh mah?

Poetry is multifaceted and timeless. Resultantly, its subject and its crafting provide a rich array of possibilities for engagement and use. Within this edition, poetry is presented as powerful, with the kinetic energy to teach, transform, and heal, even while revealing, subverting, and problematizing.

“Without further commitments and action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the world is likely to warm by more than 3° above the preindustrial climate. Even with the current mitigation commitments and pledges fully implemented, there is roughly a 20 percent likelihood of exceeding 4° by 2100. If they are not met, a warming of 4° could occur as early as the 2060s.