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Brandon Wint’s collection, Divine Animal, showcases his facility with words. Like the work of spoken word artists such as Toronto’s Andrea Thompson, his poetry sings on paper. Divine Animal is rich with anger, mourning, yearning, celebration, sensuality, and hope. The collection is also a timely and important reflection on the origins of systemic racism and long-time police brutality against Black people in the Western world. In his prelude to Divine Animal, “Incantation: Memory of Water,” Wint’s narrator considers the history of his Jamaican and Barbadian ancestors. Wint’s epigraph from Saint Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott sets the tone and evokes the Caribbean setting, “its history,” and the “scars of colonialism.” ....
Brandon Wint’s inaugural collection, Divine Animal from Write Bloody North, can be described in four words: heavy impact, gentle touch. I first heard Brandon Wint perform poetry at a small venue in East Vancouver in 2011. I was one mason jar into Café Deux Soleils’ legendary sangria when Wint took the stage. From the moment he began speaking, my arms were alight with goosebumps. Wint has always had a remarkable gift for delivering visuals, perhaps because he is such a keen observer of the world. Wint pays attention. He catches quirky specifics and like a wizard of mental origami, crafts them into poignant revelations. ....