Poetry. The poems in DARK WATER SONGS begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life's dilemmas. They expand deepen the poetic exploration which began with my earlier collections, mining the reciprocal spaces enabled by the hyphen between Jamaican and Canadian, exploring silences, the weight of memory, and a sense of the sacred. The collection contributes to the body of work by contemporary Canadian writers of Caribbean origin. The perspective is that of a poet educator and former nun - a writer who negotiates the world through the lens of islands and continents, landscapes and seas.