A Story I Am in: New & Selected Poems

by James Berry

"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave of Jamaican emigration, later becoming one of the first black writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition. Poetry mattered to Berry from an early age, exposed to two main languages: the standard English of Bible and prayerbook heard every Sunday at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185224917X
• ISBN13: 9781852249175
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.8"