Split by Juana Adcock
PBS Winter Choice 2019 Children's Poetry Charles Causley

Charles Causley

James Berry's assumed patois when he reads "Defendant in a Jamaican Court" brings the voice - "Yes I did chop him

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Split by Juana Adcock <b><br>PBS Winter Choice 2019</b> Children's Poetry Charles CausleySplit is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter, 2019. Juana Adcocks Split begins with a conversation between a woman and a snake and ends with thirteen voices affirming the vitality, difficulty and necessity of attuned communication. These poems question where we might find fulfilment, power and hope, and it turns out thats rarely where weve been taught they exist. Split is at once playful, philosophical, angry, nuanced and ultimately