SPOTLIGHT: LORNA GOODISON.

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    • Abstract:
      Lorna Goodison, first female poet laureate of Jamaica, has a way with anecdote that is wise, grounded and funny - a skill in plentiful evidence in her collection of essays and adventures, Redemption Ground. I discovered there were many commonalities in our cultural backgrounds as colonial peoples - Bath buns were not one of them - such as a uselessly excessive knowledge of British history or being made to memorize poems about flowers we had never seen, like the daffodils in Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". This the hallmark Lorna is of Goodison's approach to life and work: generosity. [Extracted from the article]
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