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Death and personal life. Berry died in London on 20 June 2017, aged 92, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease and having lived in care for his last six years. [1][24] He was survived by his son Roger, his daughter Joanna having predeceased him. Mary Berry, who had been his wife, died in 2002. [1]
Born in Jamaica in 1924, James was one of the first winners of the National Poetry Competition, winning with the poem ‘Fantasy of an African Boy’, in 1981. He had been suffering with Alzheimer’s Disease for some years, and died in his nursing home on Tuesday 20 June.
One of the first black writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition, Berry rose to prominence in 1981 when he won the National Poetry Competition. His five collections of poetry and his stories and poems for children have been widely acclaimed.
10 Ιουλ 2017 · James Berry, who has died aged 92, was one of those poets who added a special Caribbean dimension to the landscape of English poetry. He was born at Fair Prospect, a seaside village in...
14 Ιουλ 2017 · His attachment to oral patois placed him in the tradition of Claude McKay, the first Jamaican poet to defend the validity of Caribbean dialects in his 1912 poetry collection Songs of Jamaica.
James Berry is the author of several books of poetry and children’s literature, including A Story I Am In: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), Windrush Songs (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), and Only One of Me: Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2004). He lived in England until his death on June 20, 2017.
James Berry, a Jamaican poet in England since the 1940s, merged English and Patois in works exploring black-white community dynamics. Editor of significant anthologies and honored with an OBE, Berry’s poetry and prose significantly impacted British literature. He passed away in 2017, leaving a rich literary legacy.
