Jean 'Binta' Breeze

The Verandah Poems (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Verandah Poems is both a departure and a return for Jean 'Binta' Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an internationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. This is a book of coming home and coming to terms, of contemplation rather than contention - of mellow, musing, edgy poems drawn from the life and lives around her. It is Breeze's first new collection since Third World Girl: Selected Poems (2011), and is published on her 60th birthday. 'The third world girl, at home for a while, sets these attractive poems in rural Jamaica. Her verandah looks out on the sea, and she goes for a swim most mornings. The collection takes us well beyond the village, the bar across the road, and the men who proposition her. The easy-going voice talks of personal development, celebrates friends and family, comments on mortality, freedom, gender and class. The poet is examining, subtly, a more or less contented return to where her life began.' - Mervyn Morris 'A major, perhaps even a great voice. For stature, Jean "Binta" Breeze invites a Caribbean comparison with Maya Angelou, except that her range is broader still. Her poetry shifts effortlessly through standard English to a native Jamaican which has no equal in its emotional depth.' - Alexander Linklater, The Herald 'Breeze sings of sisterhood and the private spirituality that keeps the head above water even when prejudice, and laundry, threaten to drag it down. Her work, and that of a great many other black women writers, affirms life in a way that the rest of the world might do well to emulate.' - Tania Glyde, Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780372860
• Artikelnr.: 44697803

Autorenporträt

Jean 'Binta' Breeze is a poet, actress, dancer, choreographer, film writer and theatre director. She has released seven poetry books, Riddym Ravings (Race Today, 1988), Spring Cleaning (Virago, 1992), and On the Edge of an Island (1997), The Arrival of Brighteye (2000), The Fifth Figure (2006), Third World Girl: Selected Poems (2011, with DVD) and The Verandah Poems (2016) with Bloodaxe, as well as several records and CDs, including Tracks and Eena Me Corner with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and Riding On De Riddym: selected spoken works (57 Productions). Her latest collection, The Verandah Poems, is launched with a UK reading tour in spring 2016. She has performed her work throughout the world, including tours of the Caribbean, Britain, North America, Europe, South East Asia and Africa, and now divides her time between Jamaica and England. She received a NESTA Award in 2003.