Accabre Huntley

Accabre Huntley (born 1967) is a British poet of Guyanese parentage. She became a published poet as a child, and has performed nationally and internationally on radio and television.^[1]

Life

Accabre Huntley – named after one of the insurgents in the 18th-century Berbice Rebellion^[2] – was born in London in 1967,^[3] the daughter of activists and publishers Jessica and Eric Huntley, who founded Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in 1969. At the age of seven she wrote a poem about suffering racist abuse that was published by Valerie Sinason, who was then doing therapeutic work with children in East London.^[4] At the age of nine or ten she published a book of poems, At School Today, with Bogle -L'Ouverture.^[5]^[6] While studying at Reynolds High School in Acton, London, she published her second poetry collection, Easter Monday Blues.^{[citation needed]}

Huntley's work has been anthologised in collections including James Berry's News from Babylon (1984) and children's anthologies like Grace Nichols' Black Poetry (1988).^[1]

She leads poetry workshops in schools, and is a member of The Poetry Society's Poets in Schools scheme and the Poetry Society's Examinations Department Advisory Group.^[1]

Works

At School Today. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1977.
Easter Monday Blues. Ealing: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1983.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Kadija Sesay (2002). Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
^ Margaret Busby (27 October 2013). "Jessica Huntley obituary". The Guardianl. www.theguardian.com.
^ Margaret Busby. "Jessica Huntley". www.oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
^ P. Hoggett (2000). Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare. Springer. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-230-59781-5.
^ Robert Leeson (1985). Reading and Righting: The Past, Present, and Future of Fiction for the Young. Collins. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-00-184413-1.
^ Karen Sands-O'Connor (2017). Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015. Springer. pp. 73–4. ISBN 978-1-137-57904-1.

External links

Accabre Huntley at the Spoken Word Archive

[Donnell2002-1] Kadija Sesay (2002). Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.

[2] Margaret Busby (27 October 2013). "Jessica Huntley obituary". The Guardianl. www.theguardian.com.

[3] Margaret Busby. "Jessica Huntley". www.oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.

[Hoggett2000-4] P. Hoggett (2000). Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare. Springer. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-230-59781-5.

[Leeson1985-5] Robert Leeson (1985). Reading and Righting: The Past, Present, and Future of Fiction for the Young. Collins. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-00-184413-1.

[Sands-O'Connor2017-6] Karen Sands-O'Connor (2017). Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015. Springer. pp. 73–4. ISBN 978-1-137-57904-1.

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