{"product_id":"passport-to-here-and-there-paperback","title":"Passport to Here and There - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrace Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePassport to Here and There\u003c\/em\u003e 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 sensuous 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, \u003cem\u003ePassport to Here and There\u003c\/em\u003e makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Guyana, Grace Nichols has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eI is a Long Memoried Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her later poetry collections - published by Virago - include \u003ci\u003eThe Fat Black Woman's Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eLazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eSunris\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and \u003ci\u003eStartling the Flying Fish\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), poems which tell the story of the Caribbean, along with several poetry books for younger readers, including \u003ci\u003eCome on into My Tropical Garden\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eGive Yourself a Hug\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eEverybody Got a Gift\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003ci\u003eCosmic Disco\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). She has published three books with Bloodaxe, \u003ci\u003ePicasso, I Want My Face Back \u003c\/i\u003e(2009), \u003ci\u003eI Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Insomnia Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), with a fourth, \u003ci\u003ePassport to Here and There\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760046539040,"sku":"9781780375328","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/18f28ac6775849a34be889c62c90be3c.webp?v=1780169943","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/passport-to-here-and-there-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}