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- What is Valerie blooms full name?
- What is Valerie Bloom most famous poem?
- What is Valerie Bloom famous for?
- Why is Valerie Bloom a poet?
- What kind of poet was Grace Nichols?
What is Valerie blooms full name?
Valerie Bloom MBE (born 1956) is a Jamaican-born poet and a novelist based in the UK.
What is Valerie Bloom most famous poem?
Performance poet Valerie Bloom performs her poem 'Pinda Cake' for a group of children. The poem uses Jamaican patois to create a distinctive rhythm and rhyme.
What is Valerie Bloom famous for?
Today Valerie Bloom is perhaps best known for her popular children's books and poetry collections.
Why is Valerie Bloom a poet?
Valerie Bloom is a performance poet, originally from Jamaica, and many of her poems are in Jamaican Patois. ... Valerie was awarded an MBE for her services to poetry in 2008. Several of her poems feature in the CLiPPA 2015 shortlisted book Give the Ball to the Poet: A New Anthology of Caribbean Poetry.
What kind of poet was Grace Nichols?
Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
