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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.
23 Ιουν 2017 · The Jamaican poet James Berry died in the morning of 20 June 2017. Berry was a pioneering writer, educator, editor and activist - a wonderful poet whose writing for both adults and children was characterised by compassion, humour and an acute eye for the political and social factors that s
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.
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.
7 Φεβ 2021 · In 1991, Berry wrote “A Story About Afiya”, a poem celebrating the magic and wonder of childhood. From this poem, Lantana Publishing crafted a picture book of the same name, illustrated by Anna Cunha and released in April of 2020, nearly three years after his death.
