Looting Hummingbirds: Selected Poems of Daniel Thaly PRE-ORDER
Papillote Press
Pre-order: published March 2026
Edited and translated by Mark Andrews and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly (1879-1950) of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France's most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when the emerging anti-colonial Negritude movement criticised his work. From then on he wrote little poetry. Here for the first time in English (and French) we can read a selection of his lyrical and passionate poems - many about Dominica - alongside an introduction that pieces together what little is known of his life.
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