Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.

The Fat Black Woman's Poems

First published in 1983 to gain the distinction of being the first book of poetry written by a Caribbean woman to have won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, it has since become a modern classic. Rightly proclaimed a significant narrative of the African Caribbean woman in proclaiming the recovery of her memory, the book celebrates and evokes memories of the triangular trade in enslavement from the African continent to the cane plantations of the Caribbean through the voice of an unnamed African woman.

I is a Long Memoried Woman

This is a poetry collection for children aged eight and over. The poems reflect the author's interest in the oral traditions of the Caribbean, Asian, African and North American Indian cultures.

Give Yourself a Hug

John Agard

This eclectic anthology brings together poems passed from mouth to mouth, generation to generation, from all over the world: Russia, India, Jamaica, Vietnam. There are schoolyard chants, sea shanties, work-songs, riddles, spells and curses and much more.

Oral Poems from Around the World

From Mouth to Mouth

Divided into five sections, each illustrated by a different artist, this collection of poetry conjures the sights and sounds of the Caribbean; the experience of living there - and of leaving for other lands. It is a companion to 'A Caribbean Dozen'.

A Collection of Caribbean Poems

Under the Moon and Over the Sea

Bringing together Black, Asian and American Indian poetry, the Guyanese poet Grace Nichols has created an anthology of verse as rich in language as it is diverse in culture.

Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures

Can I Buy a Slice of Sky?

Cathie Felstead

Mangoes and jelly coconut, garter snakes and speckled frogs. These are some of the many vivid memories of a Caribbean childhood from poets such as Valerie Bloom, Faustin Charles, Telcine Turner and Dionne Brand.

A Caribbean dozen

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.

Passport to Here and There

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.

Selected Poems

I Have Crossed an Ocean

قصائد امرأة سوداء بدينة

A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura. * Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary. * Text type: A poetry book. * An illustration on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to recap the poems they have read in the anthology. * Curriculum links: Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play it again - exploring rhythmic patterns; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world

Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly

Grace Nichols is the best thing to have happened to younger children's verse for many years' Poetry Books for Children A fantastic and long-awaited collection from the renowned poet Grace Nichols. In this exciting collection the poems centre around the poet's cat - with three viewpoints, from the poet and mother's point of view, from the daughter's point of view, and of course from the cat's point of view. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this will make the perfect gift book for all cat lovers as well as those who love poetry.

The Poet Cat

Caroline Binch

Alice Wright

A sparkling galaxy of new poems by one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary poets. From Aurora Borealis, Sun – You’re a Star and A Matter of Holes, to Lady Winter’s Rap, the Earthworm Sonnet and You – a Universe Yourself, this is brilliant poetry with an astonishing range – comic riddles, animals and nature, home truths and the explosive wonder of the cosmos.

Cosmic Disco

Jackie Kay

Barbara Burford

Gabriela Pearse

Four Black Women Poets

A Dangerous Knowing

These are the rhymes of a little girl called Asana, who celebrates the animals that she knows and likes and dreams about - from a caterpillar to a Jersey cow, a hedgehog to a jogging ocelot, a giraffe to her grandmother's cat. There are 17 poems in all.

A Book of Pet Poems

Asana and the Animals

A collection of poems by Black, Asian and American Indian poets.

An impressive galaxy of new poems that kids will love from one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary poets. From Aurora Borealis, Sun – You’ re a Star and A Matter of Holes, to Lady Winter’s Rap, the Earthworm Sonnet and You – a Universe Yourself, this is brilliant poetry with an astonishing range – comic riddles, animals and nature, home truths and the explosive wonder of the cosmos. This is a poetry book like no other

Have you ever felt frozen by fear and panic? Unable to do the things you would like to do with ease and peace? Have feelings of dread, fright, alarm, and trembling? Sleepless nights, pacing the floor, wishing you could just fly away? Uncontrollable sweating, rapid pulse, and shakiness? Powerless over your circumstance? Asking yourself, "What's wrong with me?" I too had experienced these very same things during a great trial in my life, which led me to the writing of this book. Instead of faltering or giving in to the fear and panic I had been experiencing, I started an almost two-year journey into an in-depth study of God's Word and asked him for answers: Give me wisdom. Give me insight. Why am I going through this? Show me how to be set free. And with constant prayer and study, God did indeed open up my eyes to many things that will not only amaze you, but will also set you free from this grip! If you want to receive the freedom that only God can give where the research has already been done for you, then it is a must that you read this book! You will experience a closer relationship with our Lord and will have a much more better understanding of his Word. The Word that will set you free! "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free!" (John 8:32)

Freedom From Fear And Panic

A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.

Come on Into My Tropical Garden

Satoshi Kitamura

A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura.

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