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 139
... speak of you . See what's going on in performance poetry . Get inspired and challenged . Don't get complacent . Be grounded in the physical reality of everyday life , while simultaneously reaching to ' hang out ' in the stars . " KARMA ...
... speak of you . See what's going on in performance poetry . Get inspired and challenged . Don't get complacent . Be grounded in the physical reality of everyday life , while simultaneously reaching to ' hang out ' in the stars . " KARMA ...
Page 147
... speak with a strong Jamaican accent because that's all I was hearing . The family that baby - sat me when my mum and dad went to work were also Jamaican . My mum is a great storyteller from the oral tradition , rich in culture and self ...
... speak with a strong Jamaican accent because that's all I was hearing . The family that baby - sat me when my mum and dad went to work were also Jamaican . My mum is a great storyteller from the oral tradition , rich in culture and self ...
Page 225
... Speak Simply , Sutton : Hippopotamus Press Hollo , Anselm ( ed . ) ( 1964 ) Negro Verse , London : Vista Books Hughes , Langston ( 1995 ) The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes , New York : Vintage Johnson , Linton Kwesi ( 1974 ) Voices ...
... Speak Simply , Sutton : Hippopotamus Press Hollo , Anselm ( ed . ) ( 1964 ) Negro Verse , London : Vista Books Hughes , Langston ( 1995 ) The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes , New York : Vintage Johnson , Linton Kwesi ( 1974 ) Voices ...
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