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Travel Light Travel Dark
By John Agard
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John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. And he has just received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry from Her Majesty the Queen. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, he casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters. Cross-cultural connections are played out in a variety of voices and cadences. Prospero and Caliban have a cricket match encounter, recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms, and in the long poem, Water Music of a Different Kind, the incantatory orchestration of the Atlantic's middle passage becomes a moving counterpoint to Handel's Water Music. Travel Light Travel Dark brings a mythic dimension to the contemporary and opens with a meditation on the enigma of colour. Water often appears as a metaphoric riff within the fabric of the collection, as sugar cane tells its own story in 'Sugar Cane's Saga' and water speaks for itself in a witty debate with wine, inspired by the satirical tradition of the goliards, wandering cleri of the Middle Ages. Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2012.
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John Agard
John, born in Guyana and now a resident in the UK, is a world-renowned poet and performer. He has won numerous awards including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the Smarties Award, the Paul Hamlyn Award and the Casa de las Americas Poetry Award.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Agard is a poet who always has a sense of fun tucked away somewhere in the background of his work, even when he's dealing with serious subjects, and he particularly enjoys bringing apparently incongruous ideas together. There's a lot of this in Travel light, travel dark - Handel's Water Music takes on the slave trade, a racist Saxon complains in a pub about Norse immigrants, Old Father Thames contemplates a sex-change, and so on. I particularly liked "Prospero Caliban Cricket", an hommage to C.L.R. James, in which he puts new life into the most overworked postcolonial literary allusion with a calypso-style cricket commentary:Caliban arcing de balllike an unpredictable whipProspero foot it like chain to de ground.Before he could mek a movede ball gone thru to de slip.