Moving Voices: Black Performance PoetryHansib, 2002 - 231 pages A comprehensive collection of poems by twelve,leading Caribbean and UK-born performance poetsthis book not only features biographies of each,poet and a detailed introduction discussing Black,performance poetry and its roots in the oral,traditions of African and Caribbean culture, but,also an accompanying CD with live performances,of selected poems. Check out the website,www.movingvoices.co.uk. |
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Page 164
... Give me a stage and I'll cut form on it give me a page and I'll perform on it . ( ' Prologue ' ) The first poem she performed was in Kentish Town at 164 MOVING VOICES : BLACK PERFORMANCE POETRY.
... Give me a stage and I'll cut form on it give me a page and I'll perform on it . ( ' Prologue ' ) The first poem she performed was in Kentish Town at 164 MOVING VOICES : BLACK PERFORMANCE POETRY.
Page 183
... Give me the alternative blues Give me the soca jam For Brixton rocks and is in the groove With a heavy baseline keeping it real Brixton sets the catwalks ablaze Brixton sets the dreams alight Encourages colours into unity The colours of ...
... Give me the alternative blues Give me the soca jam For Brixton rocks and is in the groove With a heavy baseline keeping it real Brixton sets the catwalks ablaze Brixton sets the dreams alight Encourages colours into unity The colours of ...
Page 206
... give my battered boat some oceaning is you is you boolooloops is you Is you who run away and walk back who lay down the law and break it up my dazzler who sun paint with long kiss my source who earth give her cloak to wear who saying ...
... give my battered boat some oceaning is you is you boolooloops is you Is you who run away and walk back who lay down the law and break it up my dazzler who sun paint with long kiss my source who earth give her cloak to wear who saying ...
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