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Passport to Here and There

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Description

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections with the ability to turn the ordinary into something sensuous and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry.

Product Details

PublisherBloodaxe Books
Publish DateJune 09, 2020
Pages64
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781780375328
Dimensions8.5 X 5.4 X 0.2 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections - published by Virago - include The Fat Black Woman's Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), Sunris (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and Startling the Flying Fish (2006), poems which tell the story of the Caribbean, along with several poetry books for younger readers, including Come on into My Tropical Garden (1988), Give Yourself a Hug (1994), Everybody Got a Gift (2005) and Cosmic Disco (2013). She has published three books with Bloodaxe, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), and The Insomnia Poems (2017), with a fourth, Passport to Here and There (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.

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"Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean." - Gwendolyn Brooks

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