Windrush Songs

by James Berry

These poems gives voice to the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages which had brought ancestors from Africa to the slave plantations. James Berry - from Jamaica - was one of these emigrants, settling in Britain in 1948. This late collection by Berry explores the different reasons he and his fellow travellers had for leaving the Caribbean when they rushed to get on the boat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247703
• ISBN13: 9781852247706
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.4" x 8.5"