Passport to Here and There

By Grace Nichols

Book Overview

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections, with the ability to turn the ordinary into something vivid and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry. Passport to Here and There is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017). It was given a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2020.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780375328
• ISBN13: 9781780375328
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"