I Have Crossed an Ocean

• Utgivningsdatum: 2010-05-31
• Mått: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 300 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 192
• Förlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9781852248581

• Poesi

Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (Karnak House, 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 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. Her later books from Bloodaxe are Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009); I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010); The Insomnia Poems (2017); Passport to Here and There (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and The Tracks of My Name (2026), a Poetry Book Society Choice. 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 was made a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. Grace Nichols received The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2021 from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle in 2022. She won the 2026 RSL Pioneer Prize, an award which recognises pioneering British women writers who have been trailblazers in their fields. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard.

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

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