About Kingston
Peekash Press
Poetry
Paperback (19 pages)
Published March 2025
ISBN 978-976-96854-7-5
“Amílcar Peter Sanatan’s About Kingston peoples for its readers a Caribbean of simultaneity, of those speakers and spoken of dreaming an end to Empire through connection and nuanced love. Indeed, Sanatan’s ode to Kingston thrums with a candour in lyrical riffs that stun me, leaving me to marvel at the transformative magic of his political call-out and call-in. In such deft clarity he writes “when mountains speak in the sombre tongues about the dead/ i know some politicians got enough sleep…”. Sanatan’s is a new, searing, breakout voice that makes me believe again that poetry’s velocity is one of transformation and political change. I can’t wait to keep reading his work and be changed forever.” – Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria