{"title":"Grace Nichols","description":"Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. \n\nHer first collection,  \u003cem\u003eI is a Long Memoried Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections – published by Virago – include \u003cem\u003eThe Fat Black Woman’s Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eLazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003eSunrise\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and \u003cem\u003eStartling the Flying Fish\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), poems which tell the story of the Caribbean, along with numerous poetry books for younger readers, including \u003cem\u003eCome on into My Tropical Garden\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), \u003cem\u003eGive Yourself a Hug\u003c\/em\u003e (1994) and \u003cem\u003eEverybody Got a Gift\u003c\/em\u003e (2005).\n\nShe has published two books with Bloodaxe: her latest collection, \u003cem\u003ePicasso, I Want My Face Back\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), and \u003cem\u003eI Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), published on the occasion of her 60th birthday. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.\n","products":[{"product_id":"red-contemporary-black-british-poetry","title":"Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry","description":"\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows.\" \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Busby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e collects poems that engage 'red', poems by Black British poets writing with the word 'red' in mind—as a kind of leap-off point, a context, a germ—the way something small, minor, or grand might spur a poem. It offers the reader the freedom to come to whatever conclusions they want to about what writing as a poet who is also Black and British might mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a book of poets ranging from well-established and published writers to first time poets. \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e does find its usual associations with blood, violence, passion, and anger. Sometimes it is linked with sensuality and sexuality. But there are surprises, when red defines a memory or mood, the quality of light in a sky, the colour of skin, the sound of a song, and much, much more. The anthology, therefore, succeeds in producing poems that seem to be first about image, and only then about whatever else fascinates the poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sense, \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is a different kind of anthology of Black British writing, and the richness of the entries, the moods, the humour, the passion, the reflection, the confessional all confirm that Black British poetry is a lively and defining force in Britain today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Kwame Dawes is a poet, novelist, playwright and critic. His work as an organiser and deliverer of poetry workshops has been hailed in many parts of the world, not least in the UK, USA and Jamaica, where he has been the Literary programmer of the Calabash International Literature Festival for the past ten years. His work as an editor received wide praise for \u003ci\u003eWheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Inscribe, an imprint of Peepal Tree. The Inscribe Series Editor is Kadija Sesay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKwame Dawes\u003c\/b\u003e is widely acknowledged as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott generation. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041100660,"sku":"9781845231293","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_58dc73c3-5255-4b26-8256-25d89c3a0037.jpeg?v=1752237646"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/grace-nichols\/jack-mapanje.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}