Dante's Inferno

This Jamaican Dante is as much a transformation as it is translation, by one of the most celebrated Caribbean writers of our time and former Poet Laureate of Jamaica. A quarter of a century in the making, this new version, using the entire continuum of Jamaican speech yet grounded in Dante's formal architecture, brings an entire world to life. The poet's narrator, its Dante figure, is now guided through an underworld by Goodison's great Jamaican predecessor Louise Bennett, 'Miss Lou' in the book.