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Christine Roseeta Walker is a poet and author from Manchester, England. Her debut collection Coco Island (Carcanet Press, 2024), was shortlisted for multiple literary awards and praised for its vivid evocation of 1990s Jamaica, lyric intensity, and its attention to voice and social memory.

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Set in Negril, Jamaica, the poems ask a universal question: what happens to children when families fall apart?

 

The poet and critic, Declan Ryan, described Coco Island as "one in which a single place comes to feel like the world (...) with characters fleshed out in the way one might expect in a novel." 

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Walker's work is performed at festivals, museums and literary events across the UK, and is studied in universities around England.

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Her forthcoming collection, Wild Menageries, turns toward the natural world and the widening gap between humans, wildlife and landscape.​

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She is currently Poet-in Residence at Avro Heritage Museum in Woodford, Cheshire, where she is developing a body of work inspired by early aviation, archival materials and the human stories behind flight.

 

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