Poetry
Tropic Reveries
Una Marson · 1930
Synopsis
The author's first collection brings together lyrics, sonnets and miscellaneous poems. Love and nature hold first place in it, along with the pain that love brings, and feminist accents can be heard. The poem "Life's Joys" counts music, poetry and lovely books among the joys of life.
Context
The collection appeared in 1930, published by the author herself, while she was running The Cosmopolitan. It opens a body of work that includes other collections, Heights and Depths, The Moth and the Star in 1937 and Towards the Stars in 1945, and plays, among them Pocomania in 1938. Peepal Tree Press published a selection of her poems in 2011. The book has not been translated into French, and the BnF holds no book by the author.
Who it is for
To discover the first verses of an author who was also a journalist, a woman of the theatre and a radio voice.
Prizes and reception
The Institute of Jamaica awarded her the Silver Musgrave Medal in 1930, the very year the collection appeared.