Poetry
Raindrops
Celo Kulagoe · 1998
Synopsis
This collection of short poems, illustrated by Frederick Butafa, is the author's third book. No published review discusses it; the readers who have commented on it find in it gentle pieces, turned most often towards friends and family, in which the culture of the islands comes to life, each poem standing on its own.
Context
The collection appeared in Suva, Fiji, in 1998, from Mana Publications with the South Pacific Creative Arts Society, in 68 pages. It follows a first book of poems, published by the same publisher in 1980, and a volume of stories from 1991, published in Honiara and Suva. The University of Hawaii's reading guide to Pacific literature lists it among the Solomon Islands collections, and the Mexican review Círculo de Poesía translated into Spanish, in 2023, a poem from his first collection.
Who it is for
For reading the poetry of the Solomon Islands, rare outside the archipelago, in the simple lines of a teacher.
Prizes and reception
For one of its readers, the poems put together make up the picture of a life in the Solomon Islands.
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