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]
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]