Caribbean author to discuss debut poetry collection in Fort Greene
Brooklyn BookBeat
Hailed by Junot Díaz as “one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers,” Colin Channer is a best-selling novelist, cofounder of the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica and a widely published poet. The writer will appear in Fort Greene to discuss his debut poetry collection “Providential” on Sept. 10 at Greenlight Bookstore (7:30 p.m., 686 Fulton St.), in conversation with Paul Holdengraber.
The event is free and beer will be provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
“Providential” presents a portrait of violence, family, love and loss, and a meditation on the figure of the Jamaican policeman.
The collection brings to light Jamaica’s harsh reality of a force ranked as one of the deadliest in the world. These poems reveal the nuances of feeling, soul and lived life that are buried in the sterile facts of history by creating archetypes, creating and rewriting myths and reminding us of the voices and bodies that are at the heart of those stories over time.