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The Tracks of My Name
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ISBN13: 9781780377551
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Tracks of My Name sees Grace Nichols embarking on a journey across the English countryside to the small town of Olney in Buckinghamshire, where the one-time English slave-trader (later abolitionist) John Newton lived. It was here that Newton wrote his famous hymn, Amazing Grace. which inspired Nichols' Guyanese Methodist parents to name her Grace Olney after both hymn and place.
A narrative sequence that reads as a personal quest, The Tracks of My Name lyrically and imaginatively explores the relationship between memory and history, conscience and greed, a sense of place and love of landscape, through her own distinctive way of viewing the world. Even when confronting some of the more unsavoury aspects of Empire, she makes a space for redemption, continuing the interweave between her Guyanese/Caribbean and British heritages.
The Tracks of My Name is Grace Nichols's fourth new collection with Bloodaxe since her retrospective, I Have Crossed an Ocean (2010), following Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), The Insomnia Poems (2017) and Passport to Here and There (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.
The Tracks of My Name is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter 2026.
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