Jean "Binta" Breeze es una poeta dub y narradora jamaicana cuyas palabras resuenan en audiencias globales. Sus dinámicas actuaciones, que fusionan ritmo y poesía, le han valido el reconocimiento en todos los continentes. Breeze se enfoca en transmitir narrativas y emociones con una potencia y urgencia únicas, estableciéndose como una voz influyente en la poesía escénica contemporánea.
Chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry. Steeped in the history of Jamaica, this book develops the possibilities of narrative, voice and rhythm, offering a vision of Caribbean lives and culture.
This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems are included on an accompanying DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela Robertson- Pearce.
Poems of coming home, both a departure and a return for Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an inter-nationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. Published on her 60th birthday, launched with a UK reading tour.