Pitch Lake by Andre Bagoo Half the Human Race " —John Burnside

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Pitch Lake by Andre Bagoo Half the Human Race " —John BurnsideAndre Bagoo has been awarded The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first time publication in The Caribbean Writer for 'On Wordsworth's The Daffodils', a poem from Pitch Lake. You can download the poem below. Divided into three sections , Andre Bagoos poems explore the multiple resonances of the words, where pitch signifies both the stickiness of memory the way the La Brea Pitch Lake is a place where buried trees [are] born again and the idea