The Way Home (2010)

 

Millicent Graham, has, in her second book, made good on her indebtedness to her fascination with the elliptical and image-heavy verse of Tony McNeill, and the lyrical, lushness of story and memory in the poetry of Lorna Goodison. It is possible to see an army of poetic influences in these two Jamaican poets, and Graham carries all these influences inside of her, while sounding only like herself. Her work is guided first by her desire to write her home – both the actual and physical world of Jamaica, and her other home, her equally rich imaginative and poetic home. This is a collection that adds to the corpus of Caribbean poetry in important ways.