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James Berry

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Gender Male
Death6 years ago
Date of birth September 28,1924
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Portland Parish
Jamaica
Date of died June 20,2017
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
NationalityJamaican
Job Author
Poet
Education Harvard University
University College London
Harvard Law School
Awards Cholmondeley Award
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for 9 to 11 years
Notabl workBluefoot Traveller
News for Babylon
Nominations Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
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Thief in the Village
Ajeemah and His Son
When I Dance: Poems
A Nest Full of Stars: Poems
Celebration Song
Windrush Songs
A Story I Am in: Selected Poems
Anancy- spiderman
Fractured Circles
The Future- Telling Lady
Hot Earth Cold Earth
Lucy's Letters and Loving
Chain of Days
Isn't My Name Magical
Classic Poems to Read Aloud
Bluefoot Traveller
First Palm Trees: An Anancy Spiderman Story
Everywhere Faces Everywhere: Poems
Only One of Me: Selected Poems
Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird
Playing a Dazzler: Poems
Rough Sketch Beginning
Around the World in Eighty Poems
The Girls and Yanga Marshall: Four Stories
Hurricane/ Childhood Tracks Class Set
Cut-way Feelins ; Loving ; And, Lucy's Letters
Carnival of the Animals: Poems Inspired by Saint-Saëns' Music
We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs: Poems
Un voleur dans le village
James Berry: Reading from His Poems
Read and Listen: The Porcelain Man; In the Middle of the Night; Isn't My Name Magical?
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James Berry, OBE, Hon FRSL, was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.

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