Canadian-Guyanese launches new poetry book

Habeeb Alli (seated), flanked by (from left) Petamber Persaud and poets Salimah Hussain, Zaheer Zamaluddin and Jamie Meyers

A Canadian-Guyanese author on Sunday launched a new book of poetry that gives voice to his distress at the spectre of racism.

Habeeb Alli’s ‘Red Coconut: Bridging the Racial Divide,’ which is his eighteenth book, was launched at the Pegasus Hotel.

Speaking at the event, Alli explained that he chose the name Red Coconut because “I thought of coconut being pure and shared by all Guyanese [and] of course, many other tropics of the world.”