From her first collection, I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), to her more recent work such as Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), she has uncovered with a disquieting lyricism and humour the various …

Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore. Her first collection of poetry, I is a Long-Memoried Woman won the 1983 …

She writes for adults and children. Her first collection, “I is a Long-Memoried Woman” (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize: a book where a black woman evokes in the first person the pains and …

Grace Nichols is a contemporary Guyanese poet. Her first collection was published in 1983 titled, I is a Long-Memoried Woman. It won the Commonwealth Prize. She has published several books of …

Jan 28, 1983 · The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as …

Feb 5, 2012 · It is Grace Nichols' first collection, and it traces the journey of an African-Caribbean slave woman. The themes are slavery and its brutality, African participation in the slave trade, plantation …

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The phrase "I is a long memoried woman" originates from Grace Nichols’ poetry, notably featured in her poem titled “I is a Long Memoried Woman.” This line serves as a declaration of enduring memory …

Women speak lines from I Will Enter. Nichols on the legacy of slavery being to give Caribbean people a psychic connection to Africa but less of a sense of belonging to the Caribbean itself.

First published in 1983 to international acclaim and winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for that year, the first Caribbean female poet to have done so, this book has now become a Modern Classic, …