Ann Margaret Lim
Her second poetry collection, KINGSTON BUTTERCUP (Peepal Tree Press: 2016) made the poetry shortlist of the Bocas Prize
And They Inhabit The Landscape Still – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
The Festival Of Wild Orchid – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
Dear Phibbah – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
One Summer – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
Bearing Witness – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
Mango Thief – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
The Cave – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
Marcia – Read by Ann Margaret Lim
About Ann Margaret Lim
Ann-Margaret Lim was born and lives in Jamaica. Her second poetry collection, KINGSTON BUTTERCUP (Peepal Tree Press: 2016) made the poetry shortlist of the Bocas Prize. Her first collection, THE FESTIVAL OF WILD ORCHID, (same publishers, 2012) was nominated for the UK Guardian First Book Prize and received Honorary Mention in the 2013 Bocas Prize. Following her 2014 Calabash Literary Festival debut, Lim earned a feature in the Ebony Magazine alongside five other Caribbean Writers. Her poems have been in the Orion Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day Series and other literary journals and magazines worldwide.
A Calabash Fellow, Lim was part of the Jamaica Calabash offering featured in the 2020 Bergen International Literature Festival titled “Literature Around the World”. She has represented Jamaica at Poetry Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela and St. Martin, among other international events.
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