{"product_id":"third-world-girl-selected-poems-with-dvd-9781852249106","title":"Third World Girl: Selected Poems [With DVD]","description":"\u003cp\u003e Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances wee so powerful she was called a 'one-woman festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stories and historical narratives to explore social injustice and the psychological dimensions of black women's experience. Striking evocations of childhood in the hills of Jamaica give way to explorations of the perils and delights of growth and change - through sex, emigration, motherhood and age.\u003cbr\u003e Introduced by renowned critic Colin MacCabe, the book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections: \u003ci\u003eRiddym Ravings, Spring Cleaning, On the Edge of an Island\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Arrival of Brighteye\u003c\/i\u003e. Many of the poems were included in two performances by Jean 'Binta' Breeze filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce at Leicester's Y Theatre available by scanning QR codes printed in the book, along with an interview with Jane Dowson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean 'Binta' Breeze (1956-2021) was an internationally-renowned poet. \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Hanover, Jamaica, she first visited London in 1985 to take part \u003cbr\u003ein the International Book Fair of Radical and Third World Books, and she\u003cbr\u003e continued to write, perform and teach until a collapsed lung resulted \u003cbr\u003ein early retirement to Jamaica. She published eight books of poetry and \u003cbr\u003estories. \u003cem\u003eAnswers\u003c\/em\u003e (Jamaica, 1982), \u003ci\u003eRiddym Ravings\u003c\/i\u003e (Race Today, UK, 1988), \u003ci\u003eSpring Cleaning\u003c\/i\u003e (Virago, 1992) were followed by \u003ci\u003eOn the Edge of an Island \u003c\/i\u003e(1997)\u003ci\u003e, The Arrival of Brighteye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2000)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Figure\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eThird World Girl: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2011, with DVD) and \u003cem\u003eThe Verandah Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) from Bloodaxe. She also released several records, cassettes and CDs, including \u003ci\u003eTracks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEena Me Corner\u003c\/em\u003e with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and \u003ci\u003eRiding On De Riddym: selected spoken works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (57 Productions). She performed her work throughout the world, \u003cbr\u003eincluding tours of the Caribbean, Britain, North America, Europe, South \u003cbr\u003eEast Asia and Africa, and latterly divided her time between Jamaica and \u003cbr\u003eEngland. She received a NESTA Award in 2003, and an MBE in 2012 for \u003cbr\u003eservices to literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363442233618,"sku":"9781852249106","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10d5fb36-d393-4484-827a-15871eb5a2e3.jpg?v=1728414426","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/third-world-girl-selected-poems-with-dvd-9781852249106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}