I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems

Name: I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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English

By (author): Grace Nichols

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. Her later collections are not covered by this selection: Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), The Insomnia Poems (2017) and Passport from Here to There (2020). See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 31 May 2010
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852248581

About 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. Most of that book is included in her later retrospective I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010). Four subsequent poetry collections were published by Virago: The Fat Black Womans 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. 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) a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She has also published 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 lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family. She was made a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.