ABSTRACT
Like Das, Grace Nichols is Guyanese. She is an African-Guyanese and has lived in England since 1977. Nichols has published four collections of poetry and a novel as well as several books for children; her work is extremely well known in the UK and has been included in the GCSE and ‘A’ level curricula.54 She is perhaps best known for her poetic representations of ‘big-up’ black women-women who are full of themselves, who delight in their sexuality and who use an irreverent humour to challenge and mock the power of patriarchy. Her poetry, then, is magnetically attractive to any feminist critic with an eye on the female body.
