Pamela Mordecai: 3 books
de book of Mary
A Performance Poem
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The first book of a trilogy, Pamela Mordecai’s de book of Mary covers Mary’s life from her early years, through the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel and the birth of Yeshua, to...
by Pamela Mordecai
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
These "subversive sonnets" overhaul the traditional sonnet form to address a range of subjects, from the tenderness of love to the terror of rape, punishment, torture, and murder. The poet's quest is to corral iambics into the demotic of Jamaican creoles as well as forms of English past and present....
by Pamela Mordecai
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2015 — Short-listed
As she comes into adulthood, Grace confronts the mystery of her own identity and the story of her birth mother in this sprawling, large-hearted novel.
Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never...