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Passport to Here and There

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Published : Thursday 30 April 2020
ISBN : 9781780375328
Price : €11.99


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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.

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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