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 11
... wrote down the Iliad and Odyssey , epic poems which were based on tales of the Trojan War , which had enjoyed a period of oral performance and composition before they were recorded in writing . Even religious texts often began as oral ...
... wrote down the Iliad and Odyssey , epic poems which were based on tales of the Trojan War , which had enjoyed a period of oral performance and composition before they were recorded in writing . Even religious texts often began as oral ...
Page 12
... wrote in his Ayrshire dialect and performed his poems in the capital city . As Paul Robeson observed : " Would Robert Burns have been as great a poet if he had denied his ploughman speech and aped the gentlemen of his day ? ” William ...
... wrote in his Ayrshire dialect and performed his poems in the capital city . As Paul Robeson observed : " Would Robert Burns have been as great a poet if he had denied his ploughman speech and aped the gentlemen of his day ? ” William ...
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... wrote : Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses . She especially likes Roger McGough for his use of wordplay , as for example in ' Penultimate Poem ' : Pen ultimate She said So I wrote : The End . Poets who have influenced her ...
... wrote : Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses . She especially likes Roger McGough for his use of wordplay , as for example in ' Penultimate Poem ' : Pen ultimate She said So I wrote : The End . Poets who have influenced her ...
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