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Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in th...
Collection of poetry by the author about life in the Caribbean....
Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and ...
This stunning new book of poems from internationally renowned poet Lorna Goodison opens in Spain and Portugal, conjuring up a new history of the Carib...
A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
As read on Radio 4, an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home. Lorna Goodison's family made their home in the...
Poems
A collection of poems focusing on the culture and people of the Caribbean....
“Throughout her life my mother, Doris, lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River,...
A Memoir of My Mother and Her People
The Jamaican poet presents a collection of verse acknowledging her own ancestors and that of her craft....
Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and ...
In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid and Austin Clarke, writing about their Caribbean homelands, award-winning author Lorna Goodison has brought to lif...
New and Selected Poems
This volume presents a varied selection of poems from Goodison's previous collections, 'Travelling Mercies' and 'Controlling the Silver', alongside ne...
Lorna Goodison is endowed with the resources of her traditions: the Afro-Caribbean and the European. Her poems are politically illuminating because of...
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Short Stories
"Lorna Goodison makes her re-entry into the world of prose fiction with this collection of short stories titled Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour-in-Va...
Essays and Adventures
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied h...
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022 An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021 'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely...
Published on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Research Institute for the Study of Man