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Startling the Flying Fish (Paperback)

by Grace Nichols (Author)

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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (1 Dec 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844082911
ISBN-13: 978-1844082919
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm

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The unifying voice of this symphonic sequence of poems is that of Cariwoma, an oracular Caribbean woman, who incarnates the spirit of the islands and mainland with their Old World/New World encounters and scattered linkages of migration. The poems, like the sea that informs her voice, move freely back and forth in time with a meditational serenity. Cariwoma's reflections on landscape, myth and history; her entanglements with figures as diverse as Cassandra, Columbus and spider-god Anansi; the lives of her overseas children are all collected here in this exciting new work from Grace Nichols.

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Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950 and worked as a journalist and reporter. She came to Britain in 1977 and has published several children's books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A powerful exploration of the Black Atlantic, 17 April 2009

By	Mr. A. D. H. Lowe "sweetestbeyonce" (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was originally drawn to Grace Nichols by a recommendation to The Fat Black Woman's Poems. I then went and browsed through that collection and decided to buy it. The writing was poised, concise and rhythmic, and the attitude was relaxed but confident, strident yet comfortable. I really admired the strength and restraint it showed.

Startling the Flying Fish is perhaps more experimental. Here Nichols experiments with the tale of the Caribbean, weaving in a variety of voices, including that of the islands themselves. The language is lush and evocative without being purple or pretentious, and the sentiment is bold. True, other writers have tried to tell the story of the Black Atlantic, and in other ways, but I don't think that means the themes have necessarily been exhausted, and this is a worthwhile contribution to that growing body of what is termed 'postcolonial literature'.

--Adam Lowe, Features Editor at Bent Magazine / North East Correspondent for The Pink Paper, and author of Troglodyte Rose [].

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