Lorna Goodison's "Goldengrove" is a rich and varied selection of poems from "Travelling Mercies" (2001) and "Controlling the Silver" (2004), together with twenty new, previously unpublished, poems. This is a gathering from a poet at the height of her powers. Moving seamlessly between standard English and the speech of her guinea woman grandmother, and between story and song, Goodison brings dignity to the everyday and grace to all our experiences. Derek Walcott refers to Goodison's latest poems as 'a triumph of fusions' and asks, 'What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy.'
- ISBN10 1857548485
- ISBN13 9781857548488
- Publish Date 31 August 2006
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English