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The show featuring Bloom's lyrics was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 1990. [9] Her first novel was Surprising Joy (2003). Her next novel, The Tribe, was published by Macmillan Children's Books in 2007. She writes poetry both in English and Jamaican Patois (and has been referred to as "a successor to Louise Bennett"). [2]
Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem (ISBN 0805051716) is a children's picture book written by Valerie Bloom and illustrated by David Axtell. In 1997 it won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award. [1]
A Poetry Review reviewer commented on the way that the language seemed "to slip unselfconsciously from Creole to standard English between or within poems, creating a dialogue or polyphony of discourses in which the unequal encounter of two cultures is directly enacted." [2] The anthology quickly sold out.
The first Book Fair week in 1982 was attended by some 6,000 people, [28] and included on 30 March 1982 an "Evening of International Poetry" with performances (recorded for a subsequent album) by poets including John Agard, James Berry, Valerie Bloom, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Accabre Huntley, Mahmood Jamal, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Christopher ...
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This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems (editor) (30 contemporary poets selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside one of their own poems; including contemporary poems by Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, and Wendy Cope, as well as classic poets such as Robert Burns, John Betjeman and Edward Lear) Macmillan
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