Girl School, the chapbook debut by Rhea Manley, explores the complications and contradiction of girl- and womanhood in contemporary Jamaica.
Chapbook · Poetry
Girl School
by Rhea Manley
$50.00 TTD
“Wry and dry-eyed, Rhea Manley skewers conventional notions of womanhood with love and leverage. We look forward to more from this intriguing and original poetic voice.”
Available from Paper Based Bookshop, Port of Spain.
About the book
Girl School by Jamaican author Rhea Manley presents a sequence of eleven poems from a larger book in progress. Selected as a 2024/25 Bocas Breakthrough Fellow, Manley wrote these poems during her fellowship term, which included mentoring by poet Olive Senior.
The Bocas Breakthrough Fellowships were awarded in 2024 to five early-career Caribbean writers, to support them in advancing or completing a debut book of fiction or poetry.
The Bocas Breakthrough Fellowships were funded by Creative Caribbean, a joint project implemented by UNESCO, the CARICOM Secretariat, and The University of the West Indies (UWI), with funding from the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, under the ACP-EU 11th EDF Culture Programme.
Meet the author
Rhea Manley
Rhea Manley is a Jamaican poet and educator. Her work explores how postcolonial struggles, state violence, and women’s autonomy affect daily life. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Edward Baugh Prize for Poetry (Jamaica, 2019 and 2022). Her writing has appeared in PREE, New Voices: Selected by Lorna Goodison (UWI Press, 2019), Caribbean Quarterly, and other literary outlets.
