This is an anthology of poetry about the Caribbean by 13 Caribbean poets: Valerie Bloom, Faustin Charles, Telcine Turner, David Campbell, Opal Palmer Adisa, Marc Matthews, Dionne Brand, Pamela Mordecai, John Lyons, James Berry, Frank Collymore and the editors of the anthology. The work of each is prefaced by a page of brief autobiography. There are over 50 poems in all. Grace Nichols was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1983 for i is a long memoried woman. Together with John Agard she also produced the poetry anthology No Hickory No Dickory No Dock