Tag: poetry

  • Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…

  • ‘Half-Caste’, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the ‘AQA’ schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.

  • Cue Lazarus University of Arizona Press 2001 76 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2074-9 Carl Marcum A ’77 Pinto. Two boys “a few months from their driver’s license.” And in the back seat, a ghost of the present observing this scene refracted by memory.  In this collection of poetry by Carl Marcum, a young…

  • Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity.