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. |
From inside the book
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Page 12
... writing Don Quixote , and the character of Sancho Panza represents the speech of the common man . In the eighteenth century , Robert Burns , Scotland's most famous poet , wrote in his Ayrshire dialect and performed his poems in the ...
... writing Don Quixote , and the character of Sancho Panza represents the speech of the common man . In the eighteenth century , Robert Burns , Scotland's most famous poet , wrote in his Ayrshire dialect and performed his poems in the ...
Page 84
... writing . Although I love poetry , I always wanted to write prose . From the time I could write , I was writing stories and I was always top of the class because of the stories . A lot of my poems now are narrative poems . " Before ...
... writing . Although I love poetry , I always wanted to write prose . From the time I could write , I was writing stories and I was always top of the class because of the stories . A lot of my poems now are narrative poems . " Before ...
Page 136
... writing the poetry to movement for the plays . The schools often ask me back just as a performance poet . I might perform at an assembly and then the students ask me questions , or I run a workshop . It's great to see them come alive ...
... writing the poetry to movement for the plays . The schools often ask me back just as a performance poet . I might perform at an assembly and then the students ask me questions , or I run a workshop . It's great to see them come alive ...
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