Boswell: Between Worlds

Rosabelle Boswell

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 978-9956-552-06-1
• eBook ISBN: 9789956552665
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Poésie africaine

Because of the climate crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality, beauty, and significance of the ocean, and of marine life to humanity. They suggest that all species live 'between worlds': between fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, intuition and consciousness, water and air. We need all worlds to survive. Serendipitously, the poems were composed between dusk and dawn. They are both part-thoughts and whole thoughts that come to inspire my ethnographic writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Escape to Pohnpei (Micronesia)
• Colour
• The Shore
• Sometimes
• Swimming
• Waterworld
• Sea Call
• Empty Canoes (Ghana)
• Canoe Women (Ghana)
• Lac Rose (Senegal)
• Oil’s Well
• After Wakashio
• The Island of Secrets
• Knowing her Secrets (Mauritius)
• The Pirate
• Sakatia (Madagascar)
• Sails Right By
• Sailin’ Feelin’
• The Catch
• Rain on Sea
• Island Girl
• The Diver
• The Sculptor
• Harbour
• Two Boats (South Africa)
• The Deep
• Deep Sea Water
• Surface Lies
• Low Tide
• The Reef
• The Bend
• Little Pool
• Beyond Our Imagination
• Cabo Delgado
• Plastic
• Salt
• The Ngalawa (Zanzibar)
• Fetch
• Island
• Ama
• Bento Blessing
• Conversation
• Falling
• First Wave
• The Tide Came
• The Desert
• Connection
• Bath
• Sound
• First In
• Under
• The Meeting
• Alignment
• Data Collection
• The Other Sea
• Air
• Back cover