In The Insomnia Poems Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours
when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to
come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind
the lavender-scented pillow. Here memories of her own Guyana
childhood mingle with the sleeping spectres of dreams and folk
legends such as Sleeping Beauty. A lyrical interweaving of tones
and textures invites the reader into the zones between sleep and
no-sleep, between the solitude of the dark and the awakening of the
light. The Insomnia Poems was Grace Nichols's first new collection
since Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009). Neither that collection
nor this one is included in her Bloodaxe retrospective, I Have
Crossed an Ocean (2010).
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