Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ('Winter has landed') and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even to the Old Testament world of Ruth and Hagar. Throughout her journeys she hymns the artists who inspire her: El Greco, John Donne, Billie Holiday, 'Miles Marley Mozart'. At the end of travel, she is, as she says, 'Still on the road to Heartease'.
- ISBN10 1847772420
- ISBN13 9781847772428
- Publish Date 31 October 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 30 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 157
- Language English