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 37
... particularly among the younger ones , is to collect together upon a fine moonlight night , and talk ' Nancy stories ' . The far - famed ' Scheherezade ' of the ' Arabian Nights ' could scarcely invent more marvellous ones . " In ...
... particularly among the younger ones , is to collect together upon a fine moonlight night , and talk ' Nancy stories ' . The far - famed ' Scheherezade ' of the ' Arabian Nights ' could scarcely invent more marvellous ones . " In ...
Page 188
... particularly crass . Eventually , Hamlet became my favourite play . " For ' A ' Level she studied the poetry of John Betjeman , Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin who wrote : What are days for ? Days are where we live . They come , they ...
... particularly crass . Eventually , Hamlet became my favourite play . " For ' A ' Level she studied the poetry of John Betjeman , Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin who wrote : What are days for ? Days are where we live . They come , they ...
Page 203
... particularly keen on multicultural education and writes in the introduction to his collection of poems , When I Dance : “ As a boy growing up in the Caribbean I responded to British white people as if all were English . It is since ...
... particularly keen on multicultural education and writes in the introduction to his collection of poems , When I Dance : “ As a boy growing up in the Caribbean I responded to British white people as if all were English . It is since ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Performance Poetry | 51 |
Benjamin Zephaniah | 71 |
Copyright | |
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