Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: five reissues of significant titles representing fifty years of feminist publishing. Representing the 1980s, a stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021
Grace Nichols Poradie kníh
18. január 1950
Grace Nichols je autorkou s jedinečným hlasom, ktorá čerpá inšpiráciu z kultúrneho dedičstva Guyany. Jej diela skúmajú témy identity, pamäti a kultúrnej miešanej kultúry, často s využitím bohatých ústnych tradícií a mytológie regiónu. Nichols majstrovsky spája osobné a kolektívne príbehy, čím vytvára poéziu a prózu, ktorá je intímna aj epická. Jej písanie je cenným prínosom k literatúre, ktorý odhaľuje krásu a zložitosť karibskej skúsenosti.
- 2023
- 2020
Passport to Here and There
- 64 stránok
- 3 hodiny čítania
One of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape, turning the ordinary into something vivid and memorable, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana.
- 2014
I have crossed an ocean : selected poems
- 191 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing.
- 2002
An award-winning collection of poetry vividly evoking the experience of living in the Caribbean - and of leaving for other lands.This prestigious anthology, which won the 2003 CLPE Poetry Award, conjures up the sights and sounds, tastes and tales of the Caribbean; the experience of living there - and of leaving for other lands. A companion to the acclaimed A Caribbean Dozen, this book contains more than fifty poems by over thirty poets, including John Agard, Grace Nichols, James Berry, Valerie Bloom and Benjamin Zephaniah.
- 1999
I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit. The narrator’s story is told in a rich language, which compliments the form to result in a rhythmic musicality reminiscent of spiritual slave songs.The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as African compliance for the slave trade and being raped and impregnated by her slaveholder.
- 1996
- 1990
A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.
