Words from the Brink Belinda Rimmer

Words from the Brink Belinda RimmerFor Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis. From an exceptionally strong field we chose stories and poems that respond to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all ther power and glory, and butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while other writers ask: How do we stop it? How do we survive it? And how do we live

There are nearly 70 million refugees on the planet today

alphabet poem is absolutely for kids

‘maddened by power

I urge you to do so now

was laid to rest

A child waits for the tooth fairy

Her work is now being acclaimed and her place in Caribbean literary cannon assured

music and those difficult moments we all share but few can put into words

revealing the sad secrets behind the peep-shows and arcades

It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian gang leader Boysie Singh

loss and the politics of modern living

There is a freshness and matter-of-fact vitality in the air from all the authors