Accabre Huntley
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.[1]
Life[edit]
Accabre Huntley – named after one of the rebels in the 18th-century Berbice revolt[2] – was born in London in 1967,[3] the daughter of activists and publishers Jessica and Eric Huntley, who founded Bogle L'Ouverture Publications in 1969. At the age of seven she wrote a poem about suffering racist abuse that was published by Valerie Sinason, who was then doing therapeutic work with children in East London.[4] At the age of nine or ten she published a book of poems, At School Today, with Bogle L'Ouverture.[5][6] While studying at Reynolds High School in Acton, London, she published her second poetry collection, Easter Monday Blues.[citation needed]
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).[1]
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.[1]
Works[edit]
- At School Today. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1977.
- Easter Monday Blues. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1983.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Kadija Sesay (2002). Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Margaret Busby (27 October 2013). "Jessica Huntley obituary". The Guardianl. www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Margaret Busby. "Jessica Huntley". www.oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ P. Hoggett (2000). Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare. Springer. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-230-59781-5.
- ^ Robert Leeson (1985). Reading and Righting: The Past, Present, and Future of Fiction for the Young. Collins. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-00-184413-1.
- ^ Karen Sands-O'Connor (2017). Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015. Springer. pp. 73–4. ISBN 978-1-137-57904-1.
External links[edit]
- Accabre Huntley at the Spoken Word Archive