She Spawned!

By Jeffrey Izzaak

With the COVID-19 Lockdown as a fitting metaphorical backdrop, the writer of Tears of the Drum, completes his newest collection of poems. They remember things lost, revisiting places of physical and spiritual connections, elevations, elations, and streams of emotion. From a time of youthful idealism, they flow through seasons and landscapes to a delta of maturity and realism, decades later.
From the rewind to the closing elegies, in She Spawned, Izzaak traces the pain of death, power of memory, innocence, exile, and the alternating light and shadows it casts on the framed human canvas. Sometimes invoking biblical dimensions, it's a pilgrimage from carefree to slavery to a tentative emancipation:

Ink your bloodline through our country
From its source to the rivers & your tributary
Ink you free
Before I ink you in slavery.
From, The Ink of My Feelings

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665500043

Jeffrey Izzaak

Jeffrey Izzaak started writing poems in primary school in his native Carriacou. Aged 12, his first published poem appeared in a school magazine. After finishing A-level college, he became a member of a theatre collective in Grenada, completing a 7 year apprenticeship, studying poetry, drama and theatre arts, as a protege of Grenadian poet and playwright, Michael DeGale, who was a graduate of the Edna Manley School of Drama, Jamaica. He was an editor and columnist for the Karriacou Maroon monthly newsletter and has written one full-length radio drama and self-published four collections of poetry. In 2018, he began collaborating with UK-based artist Olga Miksche, creating artwork for his collections. In the same year, he also spearheaded the launch of the annual Karriacou Indigenous Arts (KIA) In D Bagadere exhibition, to highlight & promote the islands’ art, including literature.

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Other collections by the author:

Poetic Duty I

Poetic Duty 1.5

Tears of the Drum

Bagadey

She

Spawned!

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/17/2020

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SHE SPAWNED:

I MEMORY

Rewind 25

Love Showers

In Guyana

Lip Gloss

Dance Reward

Old Trafford

Sunday Secret

Eddy

Another Life

Memory (Spawned)

Our Revolution

II THE GIFT

Hallelujah You!

Pale Moonlight

A Bend of Language

Heavy Load

Light of Evening

The Autograph

Flower of Exile

Innocence

III A TWIST

?

The Spawn Of Illusion

The Ink Of My Feelings

Conviction

A Change of Story

IV WRATH

Killing Him

If Only

Interest?

Home Alone

Belong

Waiting

Weeping Fields

V SHE SPAWNED - DEATH

Her Death (Episode II)

My Archaeology

A Psalm For You

A Book For You

Dark Room

Vision

I’m Not Ok With It

Funeral Plan

No Muse

Adam’s Lump

Memorial Service

Tears Today

Pilgrimage

VI THE ELEGY

Your Stature

A Closing Chapter

The Islands

8 Days Of Lockdown

The Final Spawn

Shortlisted

Notes

Why interfere?

Why name it?

Just let it be.

Free!

Margaret Hercules

It was all so sudden when your spirit said I am going away

I am gone

May your journey now be straight-going

May your road be a peaceful one.

From, Wake – Kamau Brathwaite

I

MEMORY

Because.

She was…

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