Grace Nichols je autorkou s jedinečným hlasem, která čerpá inspiraci z kulturního dědictví Guyany. Její díla prozkoumávají témata identity, paměti a kulturního mísení, často s využitím bohaté ústní tradice a mytologie regionu. Nichols mistrně splétá osobní a kolektivní příběhy, čímž vytváří poezii a prózu, která je současně intimní i epická. Její psaní je cenným příspěvkem k literatuře, který odhaluje krásu a složitost karibské zkušenosti.
Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing.
An award-winning collection of poetry vividly evoking the experience of living in the Caribbean - and of leaving for other lands.This prestigious anthology, which won the 2003 CLPE Poetry Award, conjures up the sights and sounds, tastes and tales of the Caribbean; the experience of living there - and of leaving for other lands. A companion to the acclaimed A Caribbean Dozen, this book contains more than fifty poems by over thirty poets, including John Agard, Grace Nichols, James Berry, Valerie Bloom and Benjamin Zephaniah.
I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit. The narrator’s story is told in a rich language, which compliments the form to result in a rhythmic musicality reminiscent of spiritual slave songs.The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as African compliance for the slave trade and being raped and impregnated by her slaveholder.
A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.