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The Insomnia Poems Paperback - 2017

Name: The Insomnia Poems
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Author: Nichols, Grace
ISBN: 9781780373393

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In The Insomnia Poems Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind the lavender-scented pillow. Here memories of her own Guyana childhood mingle with the sleeping spectres of dreams and folk legends such as Sleeping Beauty. A lyrical interweaving of tones and textures invites the reader into the zones between sleep and no-sleep, between the solitude of the dark and the awakening of the light. The Insomnia Poems was Grace Nichols's first new collection since Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009). Neither that collection nor this one is included in her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010).

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Title The Insomnia Poems
Author Grace Nichols
Binding Paperback
Edition Paperback
Pages 64
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Bloodaxe Books
Publication date 2017
ISBN 9781780373393 / 1780373392
Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category Poetry
Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Night
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017296076
Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Born in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections - published by Virago - include The Fat Black Woman's Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), Sunris (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and Startling the Flying Fish (2006), poems which tell the story of the Caribbean, along with several poetry books for younger readers, including Come on into My Tropical Garden (1988), Give Yourself a Hug (1994), Everybody Got a Gift (2005) and Cosmic Disco (2013). She has published four books with Bloodaxe, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), The Insomnia Poems (2017), and Passport to Here and There (2020). She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.

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