Playing A Dazzler

by James Berry

James Berry explores several themes in this collection - most notably the experience of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain today. Other poems are about universal subjects, such as teenage relationships, ghosts and the experience of living in themodern inner city.

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 1997

About the author

James Berry, OBE, Hon FRSL (1924-2017) was a black Jamaican poet and writer who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.