Name: Passport to Here and There von Grace Nichols
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Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols

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 vivid 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. Our Demerara voices rising and falling growing more and more golden like a canefield's metamorphosis from shoots into sugar -- the crystal memory shared with a river... Passport to Here and There is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017). It is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Passport to Here and There Bewertungen

To write beyond middle age with anything like the transmuting fire of youth requires - so the adage says - much wilful forgetting in order to remember at a deeper level of meaning for readers. Grace Nichols in this new collection of her work succeeds in revisiting her Guyana past to make poems of lightness and diction and depth of feeling. The Demerara region takes on heraldic relevance and the people in it, principally her parents, along with flora and fauna, populate a landscape of metaphoric and allegorical longing. Her simple diction belies a complex emotional intellect and a feel for the balance of a line, its weightlessness in collusion with a depth of feeling. This may be Grace Nichols at her best, in poems that chime with bright imagery and lasting phrasing worthy of chanting to undermine and contradict, if not bringing down the authoritarian edifices of our dangerous times. -- Fred D'Aguiar
Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal. -- Jeanette Winterson
From her first collection in 1983, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK. Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture, Old World history and myth, and the gritty rhythms of the Caribbean everyday... There is wit, irony and passion...real poise. -- Michelene Wandor * Poetry Review *

Über Grace Nichols

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 four books with Bloodaxe, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), The Insomnia Poems (2017), and Passport to Here and There (2020), which is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9 Preface Rites of passage 14 If I Were to Meet 16 Litany 17 Picture My Father 18 Greensleeves 19 The Shilling and the Princess 20 Joy-riders 21 Ole Higue 22 Masquerade 23 Against the Tradewinds 24 Confirmation 25 A Chant for Mater 26 Sweet Fifteen 27 Spirit-rising 30 Georgetown Romance In the shade of a London plane tree 32 Viewing the Thames 33 In the Shade of a London Plane Tree 34 O Tea 35 Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November 36 Robin Redbreast 36 Nuptial on Brighton Beach 37 The Hills in Our Memory 38 Lewes Night Out 39 Tea with Demerara Sugar 40 Blackberrying Black Woman 41 Ode to a Daffodil 42 Battle 43 This Destiny Back-homing: Georgetown snapshot sonnets 47 Landing 48 Reunion 49 Where Blue Sea Turns 50 Bourda 51 Where My Childhood Left Him 52 El Hombre del Oro 53 From the Balcony of Eldorado 54 Price I Pay 55 In the Fleeting Now 56 Like an Heiress 57 Eldorado 58 Sorry 59 Against My Heart 60 Georgetown Interesting times? 63 Interesting Times? 64 At Stockwell Tube 65 In Praise of Surgeons 66 Kittitian Girl 67 Faith 68 Helen of the Gables 69 To Mark Your Passing 71 A Sacrament of Words 72 Lost in Translation 73 Apple and Mango 74 Rivers 75 Dawn Wind 76 Atlantic 80 Biographical note

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Sku

GOR010957357

ISBN 13

9781780375328

ISBN 10

1780375328

Titel

Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols

Autor

Grace Nichols

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Datum

2020-06-25

Anzahl der Seiten

80

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