Jean "Binta" Breeze est une poétesse dub et conteuse jamaïcaine dont les mots résonnent auprès d'un public mondial. Ses performances dynamiques, mêlant rythme et poésie, lui ont valu une reconnaissance internationale. Breeze se concentre sur la transmission d'histoires et d'émotions avec une puissance et une urgence uniques, s'établissant comme une voix influente dans la poésie performative contemporaine.
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.