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 75
... published then and I had the audience chanting them with me . My poems were published in their hearts . " The same point is made in his poem ' Rapid Rapping ' : Long time agu before de book existed Poetry was oral an not playing mystic ...
... published then and I had the audience chanting them with me . My poems were published in their hearts . " The same point is made in his poem ' Rapid Rapping ' : Long time agu before de book existed Poetry was oral an not playing mystic ...
Page 84
... published when she was twelve , in a children's newspaper , but she doesn't remember writing it : " So , I always say to people that the first poem I wrote was when I was in my teens . That won a medal in the National Festival in ...
... published when she was twelve , in a children's newspaper , but she doesn't remember writing it : " So , I always say to people that the first poem I wrote was when I was in my teens . That won a medal in the National Festival in ...
Page 99
... published : “ We have the oral tradition , but our whole education was based on what was in books . I was very pleased when I got my work published , when I could see it there in a book - it's an object , it's a physical thing . I can ...
... published : “ We have the oral tradition , but our whole education was based on what was in books . I was very pleased when I got my work published , when I could see it there in a book - it's an object , it's a physical thing . I can ...
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