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Moving Voices
Black Performance Poetry
by
Asher & Martin Hoyles
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UK
pounds £16.99
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Paperback 232 pp
ISBN 1 870518 64 0
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This book traces the African oral tradition, through African American and
Caribbean culture, to Black performance poetry in England, and examines the
many factors which have shaped this oral poetry.
Twelve contemporary poets discuss their
childhood and school experiences, how they became poets and who influenced
them, how they write and where they have performed, their favourite poets
and poems, what they write about and their advice to budding poets. A
selection of poems by each poet concludes each chapter.
The poets include those born in the
Caribbean - James Berry, Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, John Lyons, and
Cuban Redd; and those born in England -Adisa, Patience Agbabi, Michael Groce,
Cynthia Hamilton, Asher Hoyles, Levi Tafari, and Benjamin Zephaniah.
The accompanying CD contains a
selection of recordings by each poet.
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