Another crossing / Khadijah Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khadijah Ibrahim, 1972- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Black authors.

English poetry.

English poetry--Women authors.

Leeds (England)--Poetry.

Leeds (England).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2014.

Summary:

Another Crossing tells the stories of an individual life, of a family, of the communities of Chapeltown and Harehills, and of crucial moments in the making of Leeds as a place where cultures meet. The poems tell of the days when youths were excluded from school for growing their locks, of the bonfire night riots, police harassment and overt racism. But they were also the days when black people in Leeds were creating their own culture in music, dance, dress - shaped by influences from the Caribbean, from Black American music, and British punk, into something unique. With rhythms that draw from the music being celebrated, and an unerring eye for the details of style that catch a moment, Khadijah Ibrahiim both recreates the recent past, and uses that recreation to ask questions about the present. Where has that political fire gone? Where the energies that danced to a political beat? But if there are notes of regret for a lost clarity of vision, there is also celebration of times that continue to inspire. Book jacket.

Contents:

Snapshot History of Leeds

56 Cowper Street 17

Homespun 19

Homeschooled 20

Granddad's Brew 21

The Attic is a Silent Place 22

4, Gathorne Mount 25

Harehills Middle 29

Roots on TV 32

Natty Dread Protest 33

Union Jack 35

Youth Rage 1975: Warrior Charge 36

Youth Rage, 1981 38

Rock Against Racism 39

Black is Black, 1980s 40

Come What May We're Here to Stay 42

My Mother's Dutch Pot of Stories 44

Folktales n Songs 48

Everybody Business But Dem Own 51

Honesty and Forgiveness 53

Inna de Dancehall

Ramdance Master 57

Dancehall Sound Clash 59

Grange Avenue 61

Dancehall Queen 63

Jazz Funk 64

Punk Rock River 66

This is Lovers Rock 67

Get Up Stand Up 69

The Crowning 71

Log-book

Days Unfold a New Beginning 75

1983 76

1989 77

2000 78

2003 79

Another Crossing

Bird of Africa 83

Westmoreland 84

Frenchman's Bay 85

Long-time No See 86

Rootz Runnin I 88

Rootz Runnin II 89

Returning Home - Another Crossing 90

We Bury our Dead 92

When My Time Come 94

Kindred 96.

ISBN:

1845232410

9781845232412

OCLC:

889523263

Publisher Number:

99961207958