Crown Point And Other Poems

by Pollard, Velma

• ISBN13: 9780948833243
• ISBN10: 0948833246
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Summary

These poems express a range of emotions, from affectionate and observant family portraits to the righteous anger of an Afro-Caribbean woman’s truth telling, to tender poems of loss and remembrance. Shared is a focus on the position of women in Jamaican society and a common depth of reflection and concern with poetic craft. This replaces 0948833246.

Author Biography

Velma Pollard is one of the Caribbean's foremost poets. She was formerly a senior lecturer in language education at the University of the West Indies at Mona, where her areas of expertise included the Creole languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, the language of Caribbean literature, and Caribbean women’s writing. She is the author of From Jamaican Creole to Standard English: A Handbook for Teachers, Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari, Considering Woman, and Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here.

Table of Contents

Crown Point	9	(2)
Rain Thoughts	11	(1)
Kingston	12	(2)
Yaller/Yellow	14	(1)
Hope	15	(2)
National Heroes 1980	17	(1)
Sunday Thoughts (Frenchman's Cove)	18	(1)
Fisherman	19	(1)
Bud/Unbudded	20	(1)
Bird Kiss	21	(1)
From Senior's at Gordon Town	22	(1)
Moonhope	23	(1)
A Case for Pause	24	(1)
Moods	25	(2)
Fly	27	(3)
After Cages	30	(2)
Anansa	32	(2)
Martha	34	(1)
Deja Vue	35	(2)
Hindsight II	37	(1)
Screws Loose	38	(1)
After Adowa	39	(2)
British Museum and After	41	(2)
Remembering Washington DC	43	(2)
Bitterland	45	(1)
Foreign	46	(2)
Los Angeles	48	(1)
From Mandahl Peak I and II	49	(3)
Belize Suite: I: Sea Wall	52	(3)
II: Xunantunich	53	(1)
III: Road from Xunantunich	54	(1)
Impressions - Havana 1979	55	(4)
Bimsh	59	(1)
Ernie (for Hazel)	60	(1)
Roseau August 1979	61	(1)
Rain Forest	62	(1)
BM Revisited	63	(1)
Long Mountain	64	(3)
Autumn Leaves	67	(1)
Lines for Rita R	68	(1)
Lines in Sorrow (for the Adams)	69	(1)
For 'Time'	70	(2)
Remembering (for Adlith)	72	(1)
Farewell (to Adlith)	73	(1)
Revelation (from Doris)	74	(1)
Two for Neville	75	(3)
Su Su	78	(1)
Our Mother	79	(2)
To Gran... and no farewell	81