Dialect of Distant Harbours Babeth Fonchie Fotchind experimental verses that he began

experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty

the poems hold an innate quantum curiosity about the infinitude of the present and the ways in which one could observe the history of the future

without telling us what to do

laying data bare with a poet's meticulous hand

Dialect of Distant Harbours Babeth Fonchie Fotchind experimental verses that he beganDipika Mukherjee A grievous vastness to this world, writes Dipika Mukherjee, beyond human experience. With wonder and empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family in the home, as well as redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world. As the world recovers from a global pandemic and the failure of modern government, these meditations are incantations to our