In Passport to Here and There
Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her adoptive Sussex landscape. In these movingly redemptive and celebratory poems, she embraces connections and re-connections, with the ability to turn the ordinary into something vivid and memorable whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, most notably in a sonnet-sequence which grew out of a recent return trip to Guyana. Her ninth collection of adult poems and her fourth book with Bloodaxe, Passport to Here and There
makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry.
Our Demerara voices rising and falling growing more and more golden like a canefield's metamorphosis from shoots into sugar-- the crystal memory shared with a river...
Passport to Here and There
, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, is Grace Nichols's third new collection since her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean
(2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back
(2009) and The Insomnia Poems
(2017).
