When describing a period that started with this event, the speaker of a Louise Bennett poem says “wat a joyful news, miss Mattie, / I feel like me heart gwine burs.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this time period. Hannah Lowe’s poetry collections Chick and Ormonde address her father’s experiences in a direct precursor of this event.
ANSWER: the arrival of the Windrush [accept answers involving the HMT Empire Windrush or Windrush generation; prompt on descriptions like Jamaicans moving to the United Kingdom or Trinidadians moving to England]
[10m] Linton Kwesi Johnson, a practitioner of this style of poetry, discussed Windrush-generation experiences in works like “Sonny’s Lettah.” This type of spoken-word poetry has musical backing.
ANSWER: dub poetry
[10e] A Sam Selvon novel follows the life of Windrush-generation characters in this city. Bangladeshi immigrants to this city are the subject of Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane.
ANSWER: London [accept The Lonely Londoners]
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