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Jan 28, 1983 · I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit.
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I is a Long Memoried Woman. Grace Nichols. Karnak House, 1990 - Fiction - 87 pages. First published in 1983 to gain the distinction of being the first book of poetry written by a Caribbean woman...
From her first collection, I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), to her more recent work such as Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), she has uncovered with a disquieting lyricism and humour the various facets of life as a woman and as an immigrant living in the UK.
Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry .
I Is a Long Memoried Woman Paperback Paperback – Jan. 28 1983. by Grace Nichols (Author) 4.1 8 ratings. See all formats and editions. Report an issue with this product. Print length. 88 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Lushena Books. Publication date. Jan. 28 1983. Dimensions. 14.05 x 1.14 x 21.64 cm. ISBN-10. 0907015670. ISBN-13.
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I is a Long-memoried Woman. Grace Nichols. Caribbean Cultural International, Karnak House, 1983 - Poetry - 80 pages.
Jan 28, 1983 · I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit.
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