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Pollard, Velma
About Velma Pollard
Biography (The Poetry Archieve)
Reviews
Bryan, Violet Harrington. “‘Tomorrow’s Spaces’ in the Poetry of Jamaican Writer Velma Pollard.” Xavier Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013
Winkler, Elizabeth Grace. “Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari.” Language, vol. 78, no. 3, 2002
Cooper, Carolyn. “Unstaggering Considerations.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, 1991
Dash, Cheryl M.L. “Considering Woman by Velma Pollard.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 4, no. 2, 1990
Interviews
Smith, Dorsía. “Considering Velma Pollard: A Conversation.” Sargasso, Jan. 2010
Bringas López, Ana María. “Sexual Politics in Hazel D. Campbell’s and Velma Pollard’s Short Fiction.” Proceedings of the 20th International AEDEAN Conference, Guardia and Stone (eds.), 1997
Criticism
Preziuso, Marika. “Do I Belong Here? Images of Female Belonging and Cultural Hybridity in Erna Brodber’s Myal, Velma Pollard’s Homestretch, and Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 4, no. 3, 2007
Bringas López, Ana María. “Perspectives on Caribbean Gender Relations in Narratives by Velma Pollard, Hazel D. Campbell and Micheline Dusseck.” Post/Imperial Encounters, Salces and Suárez (eds.), 2005
Works
Novels
Karl: Monologue – in the Mind of – a Man!!! (2008)
Karl and Other Stories (1994)
Homestretch (1994)
Children’s and Young Adults’ Books
Over Our Way: A Collection of Caribbean Short Stories for Youngsters (1980)
Short Story Collections
Considering Woman (1989)
Poetry Collections
And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems (2013)
Leaving Traces (2008)
The Best Philosophers I Know Can’t Read or Write (2001)
Shame Tress Don’t Grow Here (1992)
Crown Point & Other Poems (1988)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Language and Jamaican Literature.” Altre Modernità, vol. 22, 2019
With Barbara Lalla, and Jean D’Costa. Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean, Pollard et al. (eds.), 15 Feb. 2014
“Writing Bridges of Sound: Praise Song for the Widow and Louisiana.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 1, 2009
With Samuel Furé Davis. “Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies: Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection.” Small Axe, vol. 19, Feb. 2006
“‘To Us All Flowers Are Roses’: Writing Ourselves into the Literature of the Caribbean.” Sargasso, Jan. 2001
“The Most Important Reason I Write.” Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English, Condé and Lonsdale (eds.), 1999
Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari (1994)
From Jamaican Creole to Standard English: A Handbook for Teachers (1993)
“An Introduction to the Poetry and Fiction of Olive Senior.” Callaloo, vol. 11, no. 3, 1988
“Cultural Connections in Paule Marshall’s Praise Song for the Widow.” World Literature Written in English, vol. 25, no. 2, 1985
“The Social History Of Dread Talk.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 4, 1982
“Dread Talk - The Speech Of The Rastafarian In Jamaica.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, 1980
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Emancipation/Morning: Velma Pollard Reads Kamau Brathwaite's "Son" from Sun Poem. YouTube, 1 Aug. 2020
Velma Pollard Reads "Telling Our Stories of Home". YouTube, 3 Apr. 2016
Velma Pollard in Conversation. YouTube, 31 Mar. 2014
Freedom by Marion Bloem – into Jamaican by Velma Pollard. YouTube, 7 Jul. 2012