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Passport to Here and There
In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections, with the ability to turn the ordinary into something vivid and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry. Passport to Here and There is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017). It was given a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2020.
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Passport to Here and There
In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections, with the ability to turn the ordinary into something vivid and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry. Passport to Here and There is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017). It was given a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2020.
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Passport to Here and There

Passport to Here and There

by Grace Nichols
Passport to Here and There

Passport to Here and There

by Grace Nichols

Overview

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections, with the ability to turn the ordinary into something vivid and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry. Passport to Here and There is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017). It was given a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2020.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780375328
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publication date: 06/09/2020
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 three books with Bloodaxe, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), and The Insomnia Poems (2017), with a fourth, Passport to Here and There (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Rites of Passage

If I Were to Meet 14

Litany 16

Picture My Father 17

Greensleeves 18

The Shilling and the Princess 19

Joy-riders 20

Ole Higue 21

Masquerade 22

Against the Tradewinds 23

Confirmation 24

A Chant for Mater 25

Sweet Fifteen 26

Spirit-rising 27

Georgetown Romance 30

In the Shade of a London Plane Tree

Viewing the Thames 32

In the Shade of a London Plane Tree 33

O Tea 34

Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November 35

Robin Redbreast 36

Nuptial on Brighton Beach 36

The Hills in Our Memory 37

Lewes Night Out 38

Tea with Demerara Sugar 39

Blackberrying Black Woman 40

Ode to a Daffodil 41

Battle 42

This Destiny 43

Back-Homing: Georgetown Snapshot Sonnets

Landing 47

Reunion 48

Where Blue Sea Turns 49

Bourda 50

Where My Childhood Left Him 51

El Hombre del Oro 52

From the Balcony of Eldorado 53

Price I Pay 54

In the Fleeting Now 55

Like an Heiress 56

Eldorado 57

Sorry 58

Against My Heart 59

Georgetown 60

Interesting Times?

Interesting Times? 63

At Stockwell Tube 64

In Praise of Surgeons 65

Kittitian Girl 66

Faith 67

Helen of the Gables 68

To Mark Your Passing 69

A Sacrament of Words 71

Lost in Translation 72

Apple and Mango 73

Rivers 74

Dawn Wind 75

Atlantic 76

Biographical Note 80

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