{"product_id":"9781780377551-tracks-of-my-name-the","title":"The Tracks of My Name","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Nichols embarks on a journey across the English countryside to Olney in Buckinghamshire. Olney was where the one-time English slave-trader (later abolitionist) John Newton lived and wrote his famous hymn, \u003cem\u003eAmazing Grace,\u003c\/em\u003e which inspired her Guyanese Methodist parents to name her Grace Olney after both hymn and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tracks of My Name\u003c\/em\u003e sees Grace Nichols embarking on a journey across the English countryside to the small town of Olney in Buckinghamshire. Olney was where the one-time English slave-trader (later abolitionist) John Newton lived and wrote his famous hymn, Amazing Grace which inspired her Guyanese Methodist parents to name her Grace Olney after both hymn and place. A narrative sequence that reads as a personal quest, \u003cem\u003eThe Tracks of My Name\u003c\/em\u003e lyrically and imaginatively explores the relationship between memory and history, conscience and greed, as well as a sense of place and love of landscape, through her own distinctive way of viewing the world. Elsewhere she continues the interweave between her Guyanese\/Caribbean and British heritages, striking a more celebratory note with poems that draw from her various cultures. And as the ocean lashed its leviathan tails and Wind wailed like a chainsaw carried by drowned slaves, John Newton, the self-confessed blasphemer, began to pray \u003cem\u003eThe Tracks of My Name\u003c\/em\u003e is Grace Nichols's fourth new collection with Bloodaxe since her retrospective, \u003cem\u003eI Have Crossed an Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), following \u003cem\u003ePicasso, I Want My Face Back\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Insomnia Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(2017) and \u003cem\u003ePassport to Here and There \u003c\/em\u003e(2020). She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2021. Her poetry is studied in UK schools as part of the GCSE National Curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194720723318,"sku":"9781780377551","price":9.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41157118.jpg?v=1778119736","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780377551-tracks-of-my-name-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}