The Verandah Poems by Jean Binta Breeze (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Verandah Poems by Jean Binta Breeze, Kei Miller, Tehron Royes Poems of coming home, both a departure and a return for Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an inter-nationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. Published on her 60th birthday, launched with a UK reading tour. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Breezes 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 Author Biography Jean Binta Breeze (1956-2021) was an internationally-renowned poet. Born in Hanover, Jamaica, she first visited London in 1985 to take part in the International Book Fair of Radical and Third World Books, and she continued to write, perform and teach until a collapsed lung resulted in early retirement to Jamaica. She published eight books of poetry and stories. Answers (Jamaica, 1982), Riddym Ravings (Race Today, UK, 1988), Spring Cleaning (Virago, 1992) were followed by On the Edge of an Island (1997), The Arrival of Brighteye(2000),The Fifth Figure (2016) from Bloodaxe. She also released several records, cassettes and CDs, including Trackswith the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and Riding On De Riddym: selected spoken works (57 Productions).She performed her work throughout the world, including tours of the Caribbean, Britain, North America, Europe, South East Asia and Africa, and latterly divided her time between Jamaica and England. She received a NESTA Award in 2003, and an MBE in 2012 for services to literature. Table of Contents 9 The Verandah Matters by Kei Miller13 Priming16 Stranger18 Homework19 Evening23 Football on the verandah26 The casting of the roof29 Departure of a daughter31 After the World Cup33 A visit from Scotland35 Breakfast surprise38 Birth40 The rocking chair41 Sound system43 Tweet tweet44 Heat47 New men48 Locking the door51 Dorothy53 Rainbow morning54 No ghost57 Tsunami58 Rum59 Visitation61 Red, gold and green62 Piercings63 Christmas Eve65 Chrismus67 Presents69 New Years Eve Review Jean Binta Breeze… emerged in the 1980s as the first female dub poet, fusing reggae rhythms and music with the spoken word… Through the use of a variety of womens voices and contexts, Breezes work challenged the usual stances of the dub and performance poetry tradition. Whether on stage, record or page, she spoke for – and to – black female experience, encompassing a wide range of subjects, styles and tonalities. -- Lyn Innes * The Guardian *Jean Binta Breeze... was a poet who first came to prominence among Jamaicas dub poets, but whose work quickly distinguished itself from its origins to gain a subtlety and versatility of its own. Dub poetry... was already capable of delivering powerful political messages. Breeze adopted this eagerly, but brought to it a more intimate voice that enabled her to advance feminism as well as openness about mental illness and sex...Her range included not only the polemical and the personal, but also more extended narratives and memoirs. -- Obituary * Daily Telegraph *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 * Poet Laureate of Jamaica * Review Quote 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 Details ISBN178037285X Author Tehron Royes Year 2016 ISBN-10 178037285X ISBN-13 9781780372853 Media Book Pages 72 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Short Title VERANDAH POEMS Language English Photographer Tehron Royes Format Paperback UK Release Date 2016-03-11 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2016-03-11 Illustrations 11 Illustrations, color Publication Date 2016-03-11 DEWEY 821.914 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-03-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145092708;

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