The Fat Black Woman'S Poems Av Grace Nichols

<P><B>A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry 2021</B><br><br><I><B>Beauty</B></I><br><I><B>is a fat black woman </B></I><br><I><B>walking the fields </B></I><br><I><B>pressing a breezed </B></I><br><I><B>hibiscus </B></I><br><I><B>to her cheek</B></I><br><I><B>while the sun lights up </B></I><br><I><B>her feet</B></I><br><br>Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her ''fat black woman'' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of ''the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures''.<br><br><B>''</B><B>Unquestionably one of our most important living poets''</B><I>i-D magazine </I><br><br><B>''Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, a