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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]
James Berry 1924-2017. It’s with great sadness that we report the death, in London, of James Berry OBE, aged 92. 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.
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.
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, OBE (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017) was a black Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.
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 Jamaica,...
Born in a seaside village in Jamaica, James Berry is an award winning poet. After working in America Berry moved to Britain in 1948 and rose to prominence in 1981, when he won the National Poetry Competition.
