Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947)Deborah A. Ring, "Goodison, Lorna". Contemporary Black Biography
2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 September 2013. is a

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n poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after

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. She divides her time between

and

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, where she is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the

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, having served as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. She was appointed

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of Jamaica in 2017, succeeding

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. In 2019, she was awarded the

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."Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2019 awarded to Lorna Goodison"
The Royal Household, 18 December 2019. Poet and literary scholar

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says "one of Goodison’s achievements is that her poetry inscribes the Jamaican sensibility and culture on the text of the world". Apart from issues of home and exile, her work also addresses the power of art to explore and reconcile opposites and contradictions in the

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historical experience.

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Encyclopedia.com.

Biography

Early years

Lorna Gaye Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica, one of nine siblings (who include the award-winning journalist

Barbara Gloudon Barbara Joy Gloudon OD, OJ, IOJ ( Goodison; 5 February 1935 – 11 May 2022) was a Jamaican journalist, author, playwright and theatre chair. As well as having a distinguished career as a journalist, in which capacity she was honoured with two ...

)."Lorna Goodison - Poet Laureate, A Lover Of Country, A Voice To Its People"
''Jamaica Gleaner'', 19 May 2017. She was educated at St. Hugh's High School, a leading Anglican high school in Jamaica, and studied at the Jamaica School of Art, before going on to the

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,"Lorna Goodison"
Poetry Foundation. where she studied under influential African-American painter

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. As well as painting, Goodison had also been writing poetry since her teenage years; some early poems appeared anonymously in the ''

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''. She has described poetry as "a dominating, intrusive tyrant. It's something I have to do – a wicked force". She has also acknowledged: "A lot of what I learned about creative writing is owed to

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, so I learned from the best." In her twenties, back in Jamaica, she taught art and worked in advertising and public relations before deciding to pursue a career as a professional writer. She began to publish under her own name in the ''

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'', and to give readings at which she built up an appreciative audience. In the early 1990s, Goodison began teaching part of the year at various North American universities, including the

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and at the

, where she was the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. In 2019, she was appointed Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Literatures in English,

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, Mona campus.

Writing

Goodison's first book to be published was the 1980 volume of poems ''Tamarind Season'', and speaking of how it came about she has said: "I was writing these poems, and some people began to take notice. Like Neville Dawes, who was the head of the Institute of Jamaica. At the time, I was working at an advertising agency where everybody was moonlighting as an artist. After I finished writing copy, I would spend time in my office writing poems." ''Tamarind Season'' was followed in 1986 by ''I Am Becoming My Mother'', for which Goodison received the

Commonwealth Writers Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

for the Americas. Her subsequent poetry collections include ''Heartease'' (published in 1988, and described by

Velma Pollard Velma Pollard (born 1937) is a Jamaican poet and fiction writer. Among her most noteworthy works are ''Shame Trees Don't Grow Here'' (1991) and ''Leaving Traces'' (2007). She is known for the melodious and expressive mannerisms in her work. She is ...

as "the uncovering for us of a spirit that has looked for, and found, a place"), ''Poems'' (1989), ''Selected Poems'' (1992), ''To Us, All Flowers Are Roses'' (1995), ''Turn Thanks'' (1999), ''Guinea Woman'' (2000), ''Travelling Mercies'' (2001), ''Controlling the Silver'' (2005), ''Goldengrove'' (2006), ''Oracabessa'' (2013) and ''Supplying Salt and Light'' (2013). ''Oracabessa'' won the Poetry category of the 2014

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wrote in ''

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'': "Her writing is often a celebration of the spirit and tenacity of women; in various ways, Mother Muse ... extends this feature of her work." ''Mother Muse'' "orbits around two important 'mother' figures in Jamaican music: Sister Mary Ignatius, the nun who ran Kingston's

Alpha Boys School Alpha Cottage School (often referred to as Alpha Boys School, Convent of Mercy "Alpha" Academy and now called Alpha Institute) was the name of the vocational residential school on South Camp Road in Kingston, Jamaica, still run by Roman Catholic ...

, celebrated for nurturing musical talent; and Anita 'Margarita' Mahfood, a celebrated dancer and lover of ill-fated musician

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— who was an Alpha Boys alumnus. Other poems contemplate, celebrate, and elegise woman ranging from the famous to the tragic to the unknown." Goodison has also published three collections of short stories, ''Baby Mother and the King of Swords'' (1990), ''Fool-Fool Rose Is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah'' (2005), and ''By Love Possessed'' (2012). Her memoir, ''From Harvey River'', was published in 2008, and was featured on

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's ''

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'' in May 2009, read by

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. The review by

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in ''

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'' concluded: "Goodison's praise songs can be found in her many volumes of poetry and now in this loving memoir. It's a legacy that can be traced back to her infancy, when Goodison's mother dipped her finger in sugar and rubbed it under her daughter's tongue, ensuring her the gift of sweet speech." Goodison's collection of essays, ''Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures'', was published in 2018 by

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– "a gathering of people, voices, stories, and the fruits of great labor", as characterised by

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. The book featured in ''

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'' as one of "20 classic books by writers of colour", being chosen by

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. Her work has appeared widely in magazines, has been translated into many languages and over the past 25 years has been included in such major anthologies as ''

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'' (1992), '' The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry'' (2003), the ''HarperCollins World Reader'', the ''Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry'', the ''Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces'', and ''Longman Masters of British Literature'' (2006).

Other creative activity

She has exhibited her paintings internationally, and her own artwork is usually featured on the covers of her books. Since 2017, Goodison has worked with dub poet and martial arts trainer Cherry Natural (born Marcia Wedderburn) to host a series of summer workshops pairing poetry and self-defence for girls aged from nine to 17, held at the

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(1935–2022) – Goodison is married to author and retired English literature professor J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin and they live in

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Recognition

On 6 August 2013, Goodison was awarded the Jamaican national honour of the

Order of Distinction The Order of Distinction is a national order in the Jamaican honours system. It is the sixth in order of precedence of the Orders of Societies of Honour, which were instituted by an Act of Parliament (''The National Honours and Awards Act'') i ...

in the rank of Commander (CD), "for outstanding achievements in Literature and Poetry". On 17 May 2017, Goodison was invested as the second official

poet laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

of Jamaica, after

, becoming the first woman to hold the title. She marked her first

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in the role with a poem "In Celebration of Emancipation", which commemorates the end of enslavement of African peoples in Jamaica. She has said: "I don't think it is an accident that I was born on the first of August, and I don't think it was an accident that I was given the gift of poetry, so I take that to mean that I am to write about those people and their condition, and I will carry a burden about what they endured and how they prevailed until the day I die." In March 2018,

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announced Goodison as one of eight recipients (the others being

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Sarah Bakewell Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and professor. She currently lives in London. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction. Early life Bakewell was born in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England, where h ...

Olivia Laing Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, ''To the River'', ''The Trip to Echo Spring,'' '' The Lonely City'', and ''Everybody'', as well as an essay colle ...

, John Keene. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and

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) of a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, honouring writers for their literary achievement or promise and awarding them each a US$165,000 individual prize to support their writing. Goodison was announced in December 2019 as recipient of the

, which was presented to her at

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in March 2020. In 2020, Goodison was elected to the

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. In July 2022, she received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from

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Awards

*1986:

for the Americas, for ''I Am Becoming My Mother'' *1999: Musgrave Gold Medal by the

Institute of Jamaica The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:Order of Distinction The Order of Distinction is a national order in the Jamaican honours system. It is the sixth in order of precedence of the Orders of Societies of Honour, which were instituted by an Act of Parliament (''The National Honours and Awards Act'') i ...

in the rank of Commander (CD) *2014: OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, for ''Oracabessa'' *2017–2020:

Poet laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

of Jamaica *2018: Windham–Campbell Literature Prize *2019: Honorary doctorate from

*2019:

*2020:

*2022: Honorary doctorate from

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Tamarind Season'' (

Institute of Jamaica The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:New Beacon Books New Beacon Books is a British publishing house, bookshop, and international book service that specializes in Black British, Caribbean, African, African-American and Asian literature. Founded in 1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White, it was the ...

, 1986, ; winner of

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

, Americas region) * ''Heartease'' (New Beacon Books, 1988, ) * ''Poems'' (Research Institute for the Study of Man/CommonWealth of Letters, 1989) * ''Selected Poems'' (

University of Michigan Press The University of Michigan Press is part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library. It publishes 170 new titles each year in the humanities and social sciences. Titles from the press have earned numerous awards, including L ...

, 1992, ) * ''To Us, All Flowers Are Roses'' (

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, 1995, ) * ''Turn Thanks'' (University of Illinois Press, 1999, ) * ''Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems'' (

Carcanet Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was named the '' Sunday Times'' millennium Small Publisher of the Year. History ''Carcanet'' was originally a li ...

, 2000, ) * ''Travelling Mercies'' (

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, 2001, ) * ''Controlling the Silver'' (University of Illinois Press, 2005, ) * ''Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems'' (Carcanet, 2006, ) * ''Oracabessa'' (Carcanet, 2013; ) * ''Supplying Salt and Light'' (McClelland & Stewart, 2013; ) * ''Collected Poems'' (2nd edition) (Carcanet, 2017, ) * ''Mother Muse'' (Carcanet, 2021, )

Short stories

* ''Baby Mother and the King of Swords'' (

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, 1990, ) * ''Fool-Fool Rose Is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah'' (

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, 2005, ) * ''By Love Possessed'' (

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, 2012, )

Memoir

* ''From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island'' (Atlantic Books, 2009, )

Essays

''Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures''
(

, 2018, ) * "Lorna Goodison on what the Queen meant to Jamaicans", ''The Guardian'', 9 September 2022.

References

External links

* Th
Lorna Goodison Papers
are held at the

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.
"Louise Welsh meets Jamaica's Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison"
''The National'', 7 April 2019.
"Lorna Goodison: Jamaican Poet Laureate"
''In the Studio'',

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, 29 August 2017
"Lorna Goodison"
''Voices from the Gaps'', Regents of the University of Minnesota, 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
''Caribbean Review of Books''
index to material on Goodison.
"Lorna Goodison"
at The Poetry Archive. *

Kwame Dawes Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of N ...

"Lorna Goodison"
''Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets'', Charlottesville & London: University Press of Virginia, 2001, pp. 99–107.
"Lorna Goodison on 'Redemption Ground' and how she got into writing"
''SPOTLITE by Literandra'', 15 March 2020. * Pádraig Ó Tuama
"A Conversation with Lorna Goodison"
''

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'', Issue 104.
"Canadian poet Lorna Goodison shares the books that inspired her life and work"
CBC Books, 17 June 2020. * Gloria Royale-Davis
"Lorna Goodison – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women"
''Jamaicans.com'', 14 July 2022. * Lorna Goodison
"Going Through Hell"
Lecture, 12 May 2021, ICI Berlin (Institute for Cultural Inquiry). {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodison, Lorna 1947 births 20th-century Jamaican poets 20th-century Jamaican women writers 21st-century Jamaican women writers Commanders of the Order of Distinction Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences International Writing Program alumni Jamaican women artists Jamaican women poets Living people Poets laureate Recipients of the Musgrave Medal University of Michigan faculty University of the West Indies academics