Velma Pollard is one of the Caribbean's foremost poets. She was formerly a senior lecturer in language education at the University of the West Indies at Mona, where her areas of expertise included the Creole languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, the language of Caribbean literature, and Caribbean women's writing. She is the author of From Jamaican Creole to Standard English: A Handbook for Teachers, Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari, Considering Woman, and Shame Trees Don't Grow Here.
"Reading . . . Velma Pollard is to encounter an acutely sensitive
consciousness grappling, even in apparently lighter moments, with
the complexity of experience." --Evelyn O'Callaghan, Jamaica
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"Tone and emotion range wide. . . . Throughout, the poet's skillful
use of language remains evident." --The Caribbean Writer
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