Reviews

The reader is engaging here with a soul who feels deeply, and sings her joys and sorrows with such skill and technical virtuosity that it is hard to believe this is Ruth Osman’s first full publication. I suspect and dearly hope it will not be the last.

— Dr. Joyce Jonas, former Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Guyana

If you do not wish to feel deeply, don't read Ruth Osman's poetry. If you don't want to look at life's underbelly, don't even crack the cover. And if you don't want to find sublime delight in the mundane, and discover fresh perspectives, may I recommend you find something else to do?

— Gillian Moor, singer-songwriter, writer and poet

This is a woman’s voice, a woman engaged with the lifelong project of making and remaking herself ... All in all, this is a collection of accomplished and elegant works in a strong and controlled poetic voice.

— Evelyn O’Callaghan, Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies

[Osman's] poems rustle the petticoats of the ordinary, peering deep into the well of Caribbean everydayness. From lilting explorations of domestic eros to exhortations to the divine muses twisting and winding poetry’s spindle, this collection surrenders to a pureness of honesty, a vulnerability tested in turbulent waters.

— Shivanee Ramlochan, Caribbean Beat (Jan/Feb 2024)