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Grace Nichols is a poet whose work has been central to our understanding of the important cultural Caribbean-British connection for nearly 3 decades. 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 facets of life as a woman and as an immigrant living in the UK.

Track listing:

1 To My Coral Bones 1.26
2 In My Sea-House 0.52
3 Our Cassandra 1.23
4 Old Cane-Cutter At Airport 1.50
5 Lip-shore 0.43
6 Footprints of My Arrival 0.58
7 Sunris 5.57
8 One Continent/ To Another 2.18
9 Waterpot 1.10
10 Taint 0.56
11 Sugar Cane 2.28
12 Like A Flame 0.37
13 Night is Her Robe 1.05
14 Skin-Teeth 0.31
15 Old Magic 0.21
16 In my Name 1.09
17 This Kingdom 1.53
18 Epilogue 0.25
19 Price We Pay for the Sun 1.02
20 Praise Song for My Mother 0.51
21 Like A Beacon 0.34
22 Island Man 1.11
23 Icons 2.08
24 Wherever I Hang 2.10
25 The Assertion 1.04
26 The Fat Black Woman’s Motto on Her Bedroom Door 0.20
27 The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping 1.15
28 Tropical Death 1.06
29 Invitation 1.24
30 Thoughts drifting through the fat black woman’s head while having a full bubble bath 0.55
31 Small Questions Asked by the Fat Black Woman 0.49
32 Sleeping Out 1.08
33 Cat-Rap 0.58
34 Sun is Laughing 1.14
35 Come on Into My Tropical Garden 0.56
36 Wha Me Mudder Do 0.53
37 Granny, Granny Please Comb My Hair 0.49
38 For Forest 1.31
39 Hurricane Hits England 2.59


Total length of the recording 50.09