
Valerie Bloom
Valerie Bloom is a performance poet, originally from Jamaica, and many of her poems are in Jamaican Patois. Her published work includes Hot Like Fire which is a Power of Reading recommended text and the award winning picture book Fruits – a Caribbean Counting Poem. She has considerable experience running writing workshops in schools. Valerie was awarded an MBE for her services to poetry in 2008. Several of her poems feature in the CLiPPA 2015 shortlisted book Give the Ball to the Poet: A New Anthology of Caribbean Poetry. Among her most recent work is Jaws and Claws and Things with Wings ( Harper Collins, 2013).
Resources
Videos
Valerie Bloom - Haircut Rap
Valerie Bloom - I Asked the River
Valerie Bloom - Keeping Wicket
Valerie Bloom - Sandwich
Valerie Bloom - Two Seasons
Valerie Bloom - Seasons
Valerie Bloom - When Granny
Valerie Bloom - Grandma, Bandana an' Me
Valerie Bloom - Shopping
Valerie Bloom - Late Again
Valerie Bloom - De Familiar Tings
Valerie Bloom - Kisko Pop
Valerie Bloom - A Tree Felled
Valerie Bloom - Secret
Valerie Bloom - The Tall Ships
Valerie Bloom - Something Comes
Valerie Bloom - Guidance