birth_date: 1924-09-28 00:00:00
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name: James Berry
about: James Berry, OBE, Hon FRSL (1924-2017) was a black Jamaican poet and writer who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.
death_date: 2017-06-20 00:00:00