Island Man (poem)
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Island Man is a poem by Grace Nichols
. It is a simple poem about a man who lives in London but thinks about home in the Caribbean
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It was written in the 1970s.
Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.Her first...
. It is a simple poem about a man who lives in London but thinks about home in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
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It was written in the 1970s.