We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs
We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs
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The third title in the "five poets" anthology series which started with "One Of Your Legs Is Both the Same" and "Another Day On Your Foot And I Would Have Died".
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We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs by James Berry
The third title in the "five poets" anthology series which started with "One Of Your Legs Is Both the Same" and "Another Day On Your Foot And I Would Have Died".
James Berry (1924-2017) was born and brought up in a tiny seaside village in Jamaica. He learnt to read before he was four years old, mostly from the Bible, which he often read aloud to his mother's friends. When he was 17, he went to work in America, but hated the way black people were treated there, and returned to Jamaica after four years. In 1948, he made his way to Britain, and took a job working for British Telecom. One of the first black writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition, Berry rose to prominence in 1981 when he won the National Poetry Competition. His numerous books include two seminal anthologies of Caribbean poetry, Bluefoot Traveller (1976) and News for Babylon (Chatto, 1984). His retrospective, A Story I Am In: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), draws on five collections of poetry, including Fractured Circles (1979) and Lucy's Letters and Loving (1982) from New Beacon Books, Chain of Days (Oxford University Press, 1985), and Hot Earth Cold Earth (1995) and Windrush Songs (2007) from Bloodaxe. Windrush Songs was published to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. He also published several books of poetry and short stories for children (from Hamish Hamilton, Puffin and Walker Books), and won many literary prizes, including the Smarties Prize (1987), the Signal Poetry Award (1989) and a Cholmondeley Award (1991). He was awarded the OBE in 1990.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330352369 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330352369 |
| Titre | We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs |
| Auteur | James Berry |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Pan Macmillan |
| Année de publication | 1998-01-09 |
| Nombre de pages | 121 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |