Dialect of Distant Harbours Babeth Fonchie Fotchind the poems hold an innate

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

has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering

formal invention is a necessary swerve in the midst of difficulty

the ingenuous and the vatic

Dialect of Distant Harbours Babeth Fonchie Fotchind the poems hold an innateDipika 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