Jean "Binta" Breeze is a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller whose words resonate with global audiences. Her dynamic performances, blending rhythm and poetry, have earned her acclaim across continents. Breeze focuses on delivering narratives and emotions with a unique power and urgency, establishing her as an influential voice in contemporary performance poetry.
Chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry. Steeped in the history of Jamaica, this book develops the possibilities of narrative, voice and rhythm, offering a vision of Caribbean lives and culture.
This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems are included on an accompanying DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela Robertson- Pearce.
Poems of coming home, both a departure and a return for Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an inter-nationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. Published on her 60th birthday, launched with a UK reading tour.