Water is an important element of Caribbean poetry and philosophy. Water connects, flows and transforms ideas, identities and futures. Water holds secrets and myths, histories long forgotten or intentionally erased. We make way for water in our earthly existence to find out what it can teach us about relation.

In liquid words, Caribbean poets have been able to respond to imperialism, ecology, magic and sex.

We make way for water in our earthly existence to find out what it can teach us about relation. Indeed, in the words of Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite: “Our unity is sub-marine.”