Grace Nichols was born and educated in Guyana and has lived in the UK since 1977. Her poetry collection Sunris was published in 1996. It's a vibrant collection of poetry about identity and belonging, womanhood and spirituality. She is a poet who loves language and shows a real understanding of rhythm and rhyme. Her poems are clear and passionate and drenched in colour, as in this extract from The Dance:
Even the white packed sands
darkened by the shadows
of their dance
is rinsed in blue.
2 comments:
oh wow, i love this extract .. thank you for the introduction :)
Daisies - thanks! Hope you get the chance to read more of her poetry!
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