Oracabessa

Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys mappings and re-mappings as the poet navigates place history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal to Canada ('Winter has landed') and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even to the Old Testament world of Ruth and Hagar. Throughout her journeys she hymns the artists who inspire her: El Greco John Donne Billie Holiday 'Miles Marley Mozart'. At the end of travel she is as she says 'Still on the road to Heartease'.