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.
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- Authors:
- Nichols, Grace
- Year Published:
- 2020
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781780375328
- Number of Pages:
- 80
- Publication Date:
- 25/06/2020
- Publisher:
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:
- Tyne and Wear
- SKU:
- 9781780375328