Bøker av Fred D'aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar's new collection connects the condition of namelessness of a famous black jockey with a present-day need to give back to those lost souls the dignity of their names.

In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.

The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.

Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother has not left her room since her grandfather disappeared. Taunted, beaten, she learns to make herself invisible.

Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.

A third collection of plays by black authors: "Boy With Beer" by Paul Boakye, "A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death" by Fred D'Aguiar, "Munda Negra" by Bonnie Greer, "Scrape off the Black" by Tunde Ikoli, and "Talking in Tongues" by Winsome Pinnock.

The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing where the poet has lived and taught, their histories, and his history as he travels away from who he was.

The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North.