The six sequences of There Is an Anger that Moves travel from Jamaica to
England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly;
people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems
which move sometimes to the measure of a hymn, sometimes to the cadence
of a Baptist sermon. Each swells with its own conviction, even when that
conviction is doubt. Miller makes us believe in the power of unexpected
things: the colour orange, broken coffins, ice cream and in the
transforming power of poetry.
From this book Kei Miller emerges as one of the most compelling and
subtle new voices from the Caribbean.