The Fat Black Woman's Poems'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER 'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' GWENDOLYN BROOKS 'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal' JEANETTE WINTERSON Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's