Accabre Huntley (born 1967) is a British poet of Guyanese parentage. She became a published poet as a child, and has performed nationally and internationally on radio and television.
Life
Accabre Huntley – named after one of the rebels in the
18th-century Berbice revolt – was born in London in 1967,
the daughter of activists and publishers
Jessica and Eric Huntley, who founded
Bogle L'Ouverture Publications
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in 1969. At the age of seven she wrote a poem about suffering racist abuse that was published by
Valerie Sinason
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, who was then doing therapeutic work with children in
East London
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Etymology
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At the age of nine or ten she published a book of poems, ''At School Today'', with Bogle L'Ouverture.
While studying at
Reynolds High School in
Acton, London, she published her second poetry collection, ''Easter Monday Blues''.
Huntley's work has been anthologised in collections including James Berry's ''News from Babylon'' (1984) and children's anthologies like Grace Nichol's ''Black Poetry'' (1988).
She leads poetry workshops in schools, and is a member of the
Poetry Society's Poets in Schools scheme and the Poetry Society's Examinations Department Advisory Group.
Works
* ''At School Today''. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1977.
* ''Easter Monday Blues''. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1983.
References
External links
Accabre Huntleyat the Spoken Word Archive
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1967 births
Living people
British poets
British women poets
English people of Guyanese descent
Photography exhibitions