Baby Cerberus

The poems in Baby Cerberus are ethereal, soul-stirring and suffused with a playful intelligence.

Natasha Ramoutar’s second collection traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives and lived experiences. Shifting deftly from classical mythology and folklore to video games to speculative futures, each poem asks us to consider how we care for one another. As we move through sentient galleries, swashbuckling adventures and the doors of Atlantis, the collection reorients us in each section with a riddle, always inviting the reader to play along, tugging on the invisible threads between us all, trying to find what tethers us together and, in turn, what keeps us here. Joyous and multilayered, this is a book that’s fast enough for the speed of information and powerful enough to stop you in your tracks.

AUTHOR

Natasha Ramoutar

Natasha Ramoutar is an Indo-Guyanese writer by way of Scarborough (Ganatsekwyagon) at the east side of Toronto. She is the Social Media Assistant at the Festival of Literary Diversity. Her poetry collection, Bittersweet, was published by Mawenzi House in 2020. She is the fiction editor of Feel Ways, an anthology of Scarborough writing, published in 2021. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.

Reviews

Ramoutars newest poetry collection does a perfect job of balancing lightheartedness and grief of looking back towards the past and finding joy while also regretting what used to be

– Sarah OConnor
– Not Sarah Connor Writes

Ramoutars striking and uncommon lyricism offers a new vision of ecopoetry that strives to rekindle human interconnectedness with each other and with the morethanhuman world A collection to discover

– Beatrice Szymkowiak
– Green Linden Press

Ramoutar presents a vision of revolutionary softness These poems reel through space and myth past and future tracing kinship between people animals monsters and the universe itself

– melanie brannagan frederiksen
– Winnipeg Free Press