From Berbice to Broadstairs (2006) by Maggie Harris is a superb collection evocative of Guyana. It is robust with poetic intelligence and sensual in its use of language." (John Lyons) " Maggie Harris continues to examine the ever-evolving relationship between her childhood in Guyana and her adulthood in the UK. The resulting poems are elegant, passionate flower-stre
wn works that stride across timescales and landscapes displaying the selfhood of a poet who carries her child-country on her shoulders. From her home in Kent - itself a region that continues to be shaped by new arrivals, different dialects and consequently, a mix of floklore - Maggie Harris' writing illuminates the past and the present." (John Rice)ISBN: 9781902294285
