Birds in November by Daragh Breen #PBSTikTok Grace Nichols’ poetry has a

Grace Nichols’ poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience

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Wong May dwells on the defining characteristics of these poets

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This new translation by James Womack brilliantly catches hardship

Birds in November by Daragh Breen #PBSTikTok Grace Nichols’ poetry has aFrom the Purgatorial state of the epigraph and an opening sequence that riffs on the Navigatio Santi Brendani epic, through Novembers titular birds flitting in and out of existence, to the trawler that seems determined to find some sort of escape at the collections finale, these poems examine various ghost states on which life and death, light and dark hinge. There are also encounters with Armstrong returning from the Moon, Virginia Woolf entering its