Passport to Here and There by Nichols, Grace

Passport to Here and There (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780375328)

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Passport to Here and There by Nichols, Grace

Passport to Here and There

$15.95
Passport to Here and There by Nichols, Grace

Passport to Here and There

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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. 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 was given a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2020.

Author: Grace Nichols
ISBN-10: 1780375328
ISBN-13: 9781780375328
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.20d
By Grace Nichols
By Grace Nichols
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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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