- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Suitcase (30 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905778015
- ISBN-13: 978-1905778010
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,308,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Twists, wraps, dreads, veils, comb styles, weaves, fluffed,
afro'd, dyed, shawled, treated: every presentation has its own stories,
occasions and meanings. Each one says a different thing about how we
present ourselves to the world.
afro'd, dyed, shawled, treated: every presentation has its own stories,
occasions and meanings. Each one says a different thing about how we
present ourselves to the world.
The collection comprises a wide ranging set of poems (91) short stories
(12), and a problem page section and styling tips. There are 59
contributors including both established writers such as Jackie Kay, Debjani
Chatterjee, Shamshad Khan and SuAndi, and new voices such as the promising
Alanna Rice.
From the Publisher
Thi is Suitcase Press's first anthology and was two years in
the making. We took great care to get as wide a range of themes and styles
as possible from as many talented UK black/Asian writers as we could. It
provides a good picture of the many concerns and passions of the writers.
We saw the theme 'hair' as smiliar to Blake's 'grain of sand'. It's only
hair, and yet what amazing worlds can be discovered by contemplating our
relationship with it.
the making. We took great care to get as wide a range of themes and styles
as possible from as many talented UK black/Asian writers as we could. It
provides a good picture of the many concerns and passions of the writers.
We saw the theme 'hair' as smiliar to Blake's 'grain of sand'. It's only
hair, and yet what amazing worlds can be discovered by contemplating our
relationship with it.
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Format:Paperback
I love the poems in this book. They are so wide-ranging and touch home so movingly the feelings we have about hair and how we love/hate having it brushed and combed as children, the closeness of a mother's care, the wild styles some adopt in adolescence, how we learn to love our hair and the sadness in the appearance of the first grey hairs. There's also some styling tips and good (very short) stories. I will get it for my children so they learn to feel good about their own body image. It's an excellent family book and should be in schools and colleges too!
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