2 options
New voices : selected by Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017-2020.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamaican poetry--21st century.
- Jamaican poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica ; Barbados ; Trinidad and Tobago : The University of the West Indies Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- New Voices is a collection of the prize-winning and shortlisted works of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prizes for Poetry from 2017 to 2020, selected by Lorna Goodison.The poets featured here are new and emerging voices in the Jamaican literary landscape.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Message from the Helen Zell Writers' Program
- Judging Poems for the Edward Baugh Prize
- The Poet Laurate of Jamaica Programme at the National Library of Jamaica
- Introduction
- Part I
- "Let It All Hang Out" Khadijah Chin
- "Easter Sunday" Jovanté Anderson
- "The Dark Room" Lauren Delapenha
- "Rio Cobre" Trevann Hamilton
- "My Home - My Hell on Earth" Romardo Lyons
- "19651" Romardo Lyons
- "Breaking News" Rohan Facey
- "Tief Like Puss" Kacy Garvey
- "Gold for the Chains" Rhea Manley
- "Commodore District" Sadé Young
- "My Mother's Tongue" Peta-Gaye Williams
- "Michi" Rozan Levy
- "Walk wid Yuh Basket!" Delano Frankson
- "Bauxite Trains Red with Rust" Christopher Allen
- "Expecting" Trevann Hamilton
- "Migrant" Gail Hoad
- Part II
- "To My Great-Grandmother" Nardia Reid
- "Portraits of Grief" Rojae Brown
- "It Was My Fault" Romardo Lyons
- "Ten Years Later, I Visit" Christopher Allen
- "Velvet" Jovanté Anderson
- "The Boy in the Bedroom" Delroy McGregor
- "Elegy" Rhea Manley
- "Since" Jason Henry
- [untitled] Jason Henry
- "Child of the Earth, Daughter of None" Britney Gabbidon
- "A Trip to the National Gallery" Teddense Thomas
- "Church Heathen" Lisa Gaye Taylor
- "Old Woman" Sadé Young
- "Plaything" Jovanté Anderson
- "Taxi Talk" Khadijah Chin
- "The X Factor" Christopher Allen
- "Under Every Street Light We Shine" Kiseon Thompson
- "Secrets of Laundry Day" Rohan Facey
- "The Girl on the Bus" Delroy McGregor
- Part III
- "What the Poui Wears" Khadijah Chin
- "Contemplating Ugli" Khadijah Chin
- "Old Clothing Store" Trevann Hamilton
- "Portrait of a Departure" Shannon Smith
- "A Branch from the Pimento Tree" Nardia Reid
- "After the Hurricane" Lauren Delapenha
- "Mushrooms on a Kingston Lawn" Gail Hoad.
- "A Little Brown Sugar" Demoy Lindo
- "Saturday Soup" Shannon Smith
- "The Broken Still Sing" Rohan Facey
- "Sudden Flight" Rohan Facey
- "Stomach Fires and a Butterfly" Britney Gabbidon
- "Healing in the Greenhouse" Kiseon Thompson
- "Kingston Yard" Rozan Levy
- "Thinking on the Green I See in Transit" Kaleb D'Aguilar
- "Windsong" Gail Hoad
- Part IV
- "For Afreaka" Khadijah Chin
- "Off to the Indies" Remone Foster
- "To Toni Morrison - August 5, 2019" Gail Hoad
- "Revival" Jovanté Anderson
- "The Backslider Remembers Baptism" Kiseon Thompson
- "A Glimpse of God" Khadijah Chin
- "Eye It All Back" Rojae Brown
- "A Brief History of Alternating Current" Lauren Delapenha
- The Poets.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789766407872
- 9766407878
- OCLC:
- 1393304125
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.