Robinson Roger - Portable Paradise - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; memories of an older Trinidad and visits that tell him both how he and the country have changed; emblematic poems on the beauty and often bizarre strangeness of the world of animals; quizzical responses to the strange the heartening and the appalling in incidents encountered in daily life; reflections on the purposes and costs of making art as in fine poems on a George Stubbs painting cocaine and Coltrane's Ascension and questioning thoughts on the ideologies of Toni Morrison and John Milton. The poems express a fierce anger against injustice but also convey the irrepressible sense that Roger Robinson cannot help but love people for their humour oddity and generosity of spirit. With A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson shows us that he can be the voice of our communal consciousness while at the same time always subverting playing and beguiling with his beautiful verse Afua Hirsch
Title: Portable Paradise
Author(s): Robinson Roger
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781845234331
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 5/19/2020
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets