October Afternoon is Jamaican author Paulette A Ramsay's second collection of poems. It features carefully crafted, layered, rich, subtle and resonant poems which are fanciful, teasing and simultaneous sombre. They poems are bold, speaking of desire, love and memory, as well as examining writing as `the path'. Ramsay's poems allow readers to explore the poetic process and experience the joy that comes from expressing oneself through poetry.