The Fat Black Woman's Poems

Name: The Fat Black Woman's Poems
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SKU: 9780349017402
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Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

By Grace Nichols

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The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols is a vibrant collection of poetry that celebrates the life, identity, and experiences of a Caribbean woman living in Britain. Through rich imagery and poignant language, the poems explore themes of body positivity, cultural identity, and feminism, offering a powerful and uplifting perspective. These works blend humour with insight, providing a deep connection to the personal and the universal.
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This book may appeal to you if you appreciate poetry that explores themes of identity, body positivity, and cultural heritage with wit and warmth. Grace Nichols’ work beautifully blends rhythmic language and vivid imagery, offering a powerful and authentic voice that celebrates the rich tapestry of experiences belonging to black women.

Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: five reissues of significant titles representing fifty years of feminist publishing. Representing the 1980s, a stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021

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'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER

'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' GWENDOLYN BROOKS

'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal' JEANETTE WINTERSON

Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.

A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021.

Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her fat black woman is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors.

In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.

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The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols is celebrated for its powerful exploration of identity and embodiment. The book uses lyrical simplicity and folk rhythms to effectively challenge oppression while maintaining a confident and defiant self-assurance, creating a compelling commentary on societal norms.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349017402

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 100g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Grace Nichols Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Born in 1950 in Guyana, where she grew up, Grace Nichols worked as a journalist and reporter. She came to Britain in 1977 and has published several children's books. Her cycle of poems, I Is a Long Memoried Woman, won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize.