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A Story I Am In: Selected Poems

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Description for A Story I Am In: Selected Poems Paperback. Major retrospective covering five collections published over four decades by James Berry, who came to Britain in 1948 in the first postwar wave of Jamaican emigration. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324. Selected Poems. 192 pages. Major retrospective covering five collections published over four decades by James Berry, who came to Britain in 1948 in the first postwar wave of Jamaican emigration. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight: 324.
"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave of Jamaican emigration, later becoming one of the first black writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition. Poetry mattered to Berry from an early age, exposed to two main languages: the standard English of Bible and prayerbook heard every Sunday at church, with all its rhythms and sounding patterns; and the tunes of everyday Jamaican language, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249175
SKU
V9781852249175
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About James Berry
James Berry (1924-2017) was born and brought up in a tiny seaside village in Jamaica. He learnt to read before he was four years old, mostly from the Bible, which he often read aloud to his mother’s friends. When he was 17, he went to work in America, but hated the way black people were treated there, and returned to ... Read more

Reviews for A Story I Am In: Selected Poems
When I think of James Berry's poetry I think of celebration - celebration with an echo of despair, but his urge to find worth and joy in both the remembered life of his rural Jamaican childhood and in his sojourn as a "bluefoot traveller" in Britain through the last forty years, is the real motive force of his work - ... Read more

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