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James Berry, OBE, Hon. FRSL (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017), [1] was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. [2]
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.
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.
The poet James Berry, who was born in 1924 in Jamaica under British colonial rule, was one of them. He came from a small rural community called Fair Prospect, and left for Britain in 1948. In Britain he became a writer and published six collections of poetry as well as short stories and children’s poetry and fiction.
James Berry was born in 1924 in Jamaica and after working in the US for a time, settled in Britain in 1948. His adult poetry collections are: Fractured Circles (1979); Lucy's Letters and Loving (1982); Chain of Days (1985); Hot Earth Cold Earth (1995); and Windrush Songs (2007).
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19 Αυγ 2015 · James Berry, OBE (born 1924), is a Jamaican poet who emigrated and settled in England in the to England in 1948 as part of the Windrush . Written by Editorial Team 19/08/2015. 5 comments. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.
