The collection Janie Cricketing Lady is Joan Anim-Addo's second book of poetry. Two long poems are included here, the title poem, followed by individual carnival poems and the final long poem, 'My Mother's House: After the Hurricane Passed'.

Inventive in its deployment of language, form and vision, 'Janie Cricketing Lady' traces the journey of an anomalous sportswoman and accompanies her migration from the Caribbean to Britain and her return to her island home, Grenada. The poems explore questions of womanhood in spatial, temporal and sporting contexts. In a powerful tribute to a small island feminist, the poems sing of struggles within and against her assigned role.

Anim-Addo's poetry inscribes an all-too-needed herstory. In the process, a fresh and challenging icon is presented, that of the Caribbean woman cricketer:

    And how she lashed that red leather,
    punching the ball off the offside,
    gravitating to her knees to make a sweep
    and place the ball sweet between fielders.


'My Mother's House' is both robust memoir and poetry as testimony to human lives in the face of natural disaster:

    I do not want to look upon Calivigny hills,
    to take to heart their alopecia distress
    the singed and balding landscape
    the broken limbs of ravaged trees
    the withered rainforest reduced to scrub
    ...