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The first full-length study of Grace Nichol's work. Rather than seeing Nichols' 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britshness' as dual affiliations, simplistically opposed, it argues that Nichols's writing is ore productively read in terms of a series of border-crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists are seen as epic journeyers travelling, literally and imaginatively, across different cultural and psychic landscapes. It also shows how Nichols's poetry explores the boundaries of race, class and gender as part of the lived experience of being a black woman in Britain. Specific focuses include the critical neglect of black British Woman's writing, the problems and potentialities of different feminist reading strategies, the role of rewriting history and revisioning myth in Nichols's poetry and nature of diaspora, cultural hybridity and the complex meaning of home for the migrant writer.

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.

In 1999-2000, Grace Nichols was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Tate. During this time she worked with children from London schools, helping them respond to art by writing poetry. She herself was inspired to write over 25 new poems, which are collected in this text.

The unifying voice of this symphonic sequence of poems is that of Cariwoma, an oracular Caribbean woman, who incarnates the spirit of the islands and mainland with their Old World and New World encounters and scattered linkages of migration. The poems, like the sea that informs her voice, move freely back and forth in time with a meditational serenity. Cariwoma's reflections on landscape, myth and history; her entanglements with figures as diverse as Cassandra, Columbus and spider-god Anansi; the lives of her overseas children are all collected here in this exciting new work from Grace Nichols.

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.