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THE PLOT: ‘ The Fat Black Woman’s Poems’ by Grace Nichols is an acclaimed poetry collection which was first published in the 1980’s. A summarising worksheet containing a dozen features of this collection of poems, with a worked example and space for students to record supporting textual evidence for each feature.I also scout out Black-owned restaurants and plus-size boutiques to find something more tailored to me. Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: five reissues of significant titles representing fifty years of feminist publishing.

I wouldn't mark this collection as a favourite, however I found it hard not to like the often humorous and deceptively simple poems which have a real honesty.Perhaps I do not read the poem because of what I fear will be seen as its ‘unseemly demonstrativeness’. But this much is fair, that Brathwaite has been the poet-critic much more invested in challenging the very culture of taste and aesthetics that favoured poets such as Walcott. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.