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Lorna Gaye Goodison is one of the finest and most widely acclaimed of the many outstanding anglophone Caribbean women writers who have come to prominence since 1980. She is known chiefly for her poetr...
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In the following essay, Baugh praises Goodison's poetry and discusses ways in which she has matured as a poet.
Lorna Goodison has spoken recently about a sequence of poems on which she has been...
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In the following essay, Baugh discusses feminist interpretations of Goodison's poetry, giving special consideration to her treatment of race and sexuality.
All women become like their mothers. ...
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In the following excerpt, Pollard examines how the use of a blend of various dialects, or codes, spoken in Jamaica, affects the flow and meaning of Goodison's poetry.
Although poetry and good p...
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In the following excerpt, Lasher notes that although the song-like lyricism of Goodison's poetry is lovely, it sometimes detracts from the narrative aspect of her poetry.
In an Age of Walcott, ...
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In the following review, Salkey notes that—although there are a few lines he did not like—on the whole, Goodison's Selected Poems is an exceptional collection of poetry.
The evoca...
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In the following review, Newson favorably reviews Goodison's To Us, All Flowers Are Roses, praising her treatment of Jamaican themes and imagery.
The forty-one poems contained in Lorna Goodison...
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In the following excerpt, Pollard analyses the use of various Jamaican dialects to convey meaning in Goodison's “Ocho Rios II.”
The struggle to find a voice that is truly represen...
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In the following review, Dabydeen praises Goodison's lyricism in Turn Thanks.
Now in her mid-career, Lorna Goodison, born in 1947 in Jamaica, in a key section of her new book Turn Thanks called...
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Lorna Goodison
Critical Essay by Edward Baugh
