Crown Point: And Other Poems - Softcover

Velma Pollard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948833246 ISBN 13: 9780948833243

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 1995

Synopsis

These poems express a range of emotions, from affectionate and observant family portraits to the righteous anger of an Afro-Caribbean woman s truth telling, to tender poems of loss and remembrance. Shared is a focus on the position of women in Jamaican society and a common depth of reflection and concern with poetic craft. This replaces 0948833246.
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Review

"Tone and emotion range wide.... Throughout, the poet's skillful use of language remains evident."

"Reading . . . Velma Pollard is to encounter an acutely sensitive consciousness grappling, even in apparently lighter moments, with the complexity of experience." --Evelyn O'Callaghan, "Jamaica Journal"
"Tone and emotion range wide. . . . Throughout, the poet's skillful use of language remains evident." --"The Caribbean Writer"

Reading . . . Velma Pollard is to encounter an acutely sensitive consciousness grappling, even in apparently lighter moments, with the complexity of experience. Evelyn O Callaghan, "Jamaica Journal"
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Tone and emotion range wide. . . . Throughout, the poet's skillful use of language remains evident. "The Caribbean Writer""

About the Author

Velma Pollard is one of the Caribbean's foremost poets. She was formerly a senior lecturer in language education at the University of the West Indies at Mona, where her areas of expertise included the Creole languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, the language of Caribbean literature, and Caribbean women s writing. She is the author of "From Jamaican Creole to Standard English: A Handbook for Teachers," "Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari," " Considering Woman," and "Shame Trees Don t Grow Here."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0948833246
• ISBN 13: 9780948833243
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 80