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The Insomnia Poems
Grace Nichols
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Description for The Insomnia Poems
Paperback. One of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets explores those nocturnal hours when sleep is hard to come by, and the business of the day is hard to shut out. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 112.
In her latest collection, The Insomnia Poems, Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind the lavender-scented pillow. Here memories of her own Guyana childhood mingle with the sleeping spectres of dreams and folk legends such as Sleeping Beauty. A lyrical interweaving of tones and textures invites the reader into the zones between sleep and no-sleep, between the solitude of the dark and the awakening of the light. The Insomnia Poems is Grace Nichols's first new collection since Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009). Neither that collection nor this one is included in her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010).
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373393
SKU
V9781780373393
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About Grace Nichols
Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections - published by Virago - include 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, along with 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 has published two books with Bloodaxe, her latest collection, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), and I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), published on the occasion of her 60th birthday. Her latest collection, The Insomnia Poems, is due from Bloodaxe in 2017. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.
Reviews for The Insomnia Poems
'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' - Gwendolyn Brooks.; 'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal' - Jeanette Winterson.; 'Grace Nichols came to Britain from Guyana at the age of 27 and she has carried the warmth of her Caribbean sensibility through many a cold English winter. Her poems celebrate sensuality and generosity and attack petty mean-spiritedness... Deeply Caribbean in sensibility, she writes sensitively of other traditions, especially Africa and India' - Peter Forbes, Contemporary Writers.