The Arrival of Brighteye and Other Poems

by Jean Binta Breeze

Book by Jean 'Binta' Breeze

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2001

About the author

Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. She has worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and teacher. She has performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia and Africa, and been called "one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years".

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Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had to read this for a class this week, and I am not kidding in any way when I say that it positively blew me away. I've read it, probably 25 times, in just this one week. She writes "love poems" like I have never known, and ... I don't even know. It's not just her love-y poems, it's all of it. She's amazing!

[rayon · Rating 4 out of 5]

not my go-to style but some strong lines + concepts. vivid memory-writing and ‘fragile’, ‘rising’, ‘Awaiting our own coming’ and ‘just in case’ made me cry