GRACE NICHOLS

'Grace Nichols' is an award-winning poet born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.
Her first collection of poetry, ''i is a long memoried woman'' won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has written several further books of poetry and a novel for adults, ''Whole of a Morning Sky'', 1986. Her books for children include collections of short stories and poetry anthologies. Her latest work, of new and selected poems, is ''Everybody Got a Gift'', 2005. Her poetry is featured in the AQA and EdExcel English GCSE anthologies - meaning that many GCSE students in the UK have studied her work.
She is the partner of Guyanese poet John Agard.

Contents

Bibliography

Awards

Further Reading

External links

Bibliography

★ Trust You, Wriggly Hodder & Stoughton, 1981

★ Baby Fish and other Stories Published privately, 1983

★ I is a Long-Memoried Woman Caribbean Cultural International, 1983

★ Leslyn in London Hodder & Stoughton, 1984

★ The Fat Black Woman's Poems Virago, 1984

★ A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets (Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols, Jackie Kay) Sheba, 1985

★ The Discovery Macmillan, 1986

★ Whole of a Morning Sky Virago, 1986

★ Black Poetry (editor) Blackie, 1988

★ Come on into My Tropical Garden A. & C. Black, 1988

★ Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman Virago, 1989

★ Poetry Jump Up (editor) Penguin, 1990

★ Can I Buy a Slice of Sky?: Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures (editor) Blackie, 1991

★ No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock: A Collection of Caribbean Nursery Rhymes (with John Agard) Viking, 1991

★ Quartet of Poems (contributor) Addison Wesley Longman, 1993

★ A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets (editor with John Agard) Walker Books, 1994

★ Give Yourself a Hug A. & C. Black, 1994

★ Penguin Modern Poets Volume 8 (Jackie Kay, Merle Collins and Grace Nichols) Penguin, 1996

★ Sunris Virago, 1996

★ Asana and the Animals: A Book of Pet Poems Walker Books, 1997

★ We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs (contributor) Pan, 1997

★ The Poet Cat Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2000

★ From Mouth to Mouth (editor with John Agard; illustrated by Annabel Wright) Walker Books, 2004

★ Paint Me A Poem: New Poems Inspired by Art in the Tate A. & C. Black, 2004

★ Everybody Got a Gift A. & C. Black, 2005

★ Startling the Flying Fish Virago, 2006

Awards

★ 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize ''i is a long memoried woman''

★ 1986 Arts Council Writers' Award

★ 1996 Guyana Poetry Prize ''Sunris''

★ 2001 Cholmondeley Award

Further Reading

★ 'Grace Nichols', 'Writers and Their Work' Series, Sarah Lawson Welsh (Northcote Press & the British Council: 1996)

External links

★ Biographical and publications information

★ Penguin UK Authors

★ Influences and style

★ ''Out of Africa'' text and an interview