Pamela Mordecai
Pamela Mordecai has published nine collections of poetry, She has also published/co-published numerous language arts textbooks for the Caribbean. She lives in Toronto.
Pig Poem – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Family Story – Read by Pamela Mordecai
My Sister – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Walker – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Island Woman – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Sarah – Read by Pamela Mordecai
A Horse of Course – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Everybody Get Flat – a dub – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Up Tropic – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Clebber Webber – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Don’t Ever Wake A Snake – Read by Pamela Mordecai
Tell Me – Read by Pamela Mordecai
About Pamela Mordecai
Pamela Mordecai has published nine collections of poetry
- Journey Poem (1989);
- de Man: a performance poem(1995)
- Certifiable(2001), the true blue of islands (2005)
- Subversive Sonnets (2012)
- de book of Mary: a performance poem (2015)
- Up Tropic (bilingual edition in Serbian and English, 2021)
- de book of Joseph: a performance poem(2022);
- A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems(2022);
Five children’s books:
- Story Poems: a first collection (1987)
- Don’t Ever Wake a Snake(1992)
- Ezra’s Goldfish and Other Story poems(1995)
- The Costume Parade (2000)
- Rohan Goes to Big School(2000),
And a collection of short fiction, Pink Icing (2006), released in 2021 as an audiobook read by herself.
Her play for children, El Numero Uno or the Pig from Lopinot had its world premiere in Toronto (2010) and its Caribbean premiere in Kingston (2016).
Her debut novel, Red Jacket(2015) was shortlisted for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award.
She has edited/co-edited five anthologies: Jamaica Woman (1980; 1985, with Mervyn Morris), From Our Yard: Jamaican Poetry since Independence (1987), Her True-True Name: an Anthology of Women’s Writing from the Caribbean (1989, with Betty Wilson), The Literary Review: Special Issue on the Poetry of Caribbean Women (with Betty Wilson), and Calling Cards: New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women (2005).
With her late husband, Martin Mordecai, she wrote Culture and Customs of Jamaica (2001).
She has also published/co-published numerous language arts textbooks for the Caribbean. She lives in Toronto.
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