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Velma Pollard is a
retired Senior Lecturer in Language Education in the Department
of Educational Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education of the
University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Her major
research interests have been Creole Languages of the Anglophone
Caribbean, The Language of Caribbean Literature and Caribbean
Women’s Writing. Articles in these areas appear in local
and international journals. She has published a handbook:
From Jamacan Creole to Standard English-a handbook for teachers
(1994) and a monograph: Dread Talk-the language of Rastafari
(1994, 2000).
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Pollard is involved in Creative writing and has published poems
and stories in regional and international journals and anthologies.
She has a novel, two collections of short fiction and three books
of poetry on the market. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas
prize in 1992. Her creative publications are listed below:
- 1988 Crown Point and Other Poems
Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
- 1989 Considering Woman
The Women’s Press, London
- 1992 Shame Trees Dont Grow Here
Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
- 1992 Karl (bilingual edition)
Casa de las Americas, Havana
- 1994 Homestretch
Longman House, Harlow
- 1994 Karl and Other Stories
Longman House, Harlow
- 2001 The best philosophers I know cant read and write
Mango Publishing, UK
Abstract:
Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine

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