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The Daily Poem: Those Women

Grace Nichols
Sunday 20 June 1993 18:02 EDT
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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Grace Nicholls was born in 1950 in Guyana. She moved to Britain in 1977, and works as a freelance writer in Sussex. Her publications include i is a long memoried woman (Karnac House), The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago), where this poem was originally published in 1984, and Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (Virago). This poem appears in The New Poetry anthology published by Bloodaxe at pounds 7.95.

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