Broschiertes Buch

New Voices

Selected by Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017-2020

Herausgeber: Goodison, Lorna

Beschreibung

Collection of the prize-winning and shortlisted works of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prizes for Poetry from 2017 to 2020. "The poets featured here are new and emerging voices in the Jamaican literary landscape. Hailing from different backgrounds, they engage with a variety of subjects, public and personal, writing in both Jamaican language and standard English".

Autor

Lorna Goodison is a celebrated Jamaican poet and a major figure in world literature. She is the recipient of the 2019 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the winner of a 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry. In 2017, she became the first woman to hold the title of Poet Laureate of Jamaica. Her many publications include fourteen poetry collections, three short-story collections, the memoir From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island, and the nonfiction Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures. Her Collected Poems were published in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9789766407858
• ISBN-10: 9766407851
• Artikelnr.: 59404572