Praise Songs - Softcover

GreII, Jane UIysses

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ISBN 10: 0957118740 ISBN 13: 9780957118744

Publisher: Papillote Press, 2013

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Praise Songs is a collection of poetry that draws on the spirit of African griots who celebrate their subjects in words. These poems are rooted in both the tropical world - the Caribbean and Mexico - and the temperate, while the language shifts from sombre requiem to gleeful rhymes invoking sounds of rain and river and song. Jane Ulysses Grell invokes a vivid landscape that embraces both the traditional and the modern and explores journeys, loss and memories with both tenderness and exuberance.

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About the Author

Jane Ulysses Grell, poet and storyteller, was born and grew up on the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica but has lived in London for many years. She has worked as a teacher and has run poetry and storytelling workshops for teachers. Her storytelling draws heavily on her African-Caribbean heritage and consists of rhythm games, songs, poems and stories. Both her stories and poems appear in anthologies while her collection of children's poetry "Doctor Knickerbocker and Other Poems" is popular in primary schools. Jane has worked with BBC School Radio as an advisor on the multicultural content ,and has also written and presented stories for schools' programmes. Praise Songs is her first collection of poems for adults.

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