Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a 'shrine of remembrances' for the ordinary people behind the headlines. It's an attempt to stay close to the facts as well as breathing life into the lost and hidden history of the Black Power revolution. These poems lament, rage and mourn. But they also offer a song of healing, a celebration of survival, a glimmer of the flames that burn in the hearts of a people still living in slavery's dark shadow.
Sheree Mack was born in 1971 in Bradford to a Trinidadian father and a Geordie mother of Ghanaian and Bajan ancestry. She worked as a teacher for several years before studying for a PhD on black British women poets. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Identity Parade, Red and Sweet Tongues. Her first full collection, Family Album, was published by Flambard in 2011. She lives in Tynemouth.
