Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller
whose performances were so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman
festival'. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing
poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five generations of
Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestry.
Part novel, part poem, part family memoir, its structure is based on
the Jamaican...
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