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    SPOTLIGHT LORNA GOODISON

    Dec 18, 2019 3 minutes
    Words: Rahila Gupta
    Photo: Gary Duak/Alamy

    orna Goodison, first female poet laureate of Jamaica, has a way with anecdote that is wise, grounded and funny – a skill in plentiful evidence in her collection of essays and adventures, . She describes the intense pleasure of a visit to a tea shop in London with a friend in 1972 to eat Bath buns, fruity cakes baked with a lump of sugar inside and sprinkled with sugar on top, and swiftly undercuts it with the observation that

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