Rema Tavares, “A Curious Confluence: Where Racism & Privilege Collide,” (1)ne Drop Project. (December 20, 2012). http://1nedrop.com/a-curious-confluence-where-racism-privilege-collide-by-rema-tavares/. |
Blinking in the LightPosted in Autobiography, Books, Media Archive, Poetry, United Kingdom on 2018-06-14 19:00Z by Steven |
Cinnamon Press
2016-02-01
28 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1910836057
A collection of confessional poems which, in starkly telling a story about a fraught pregnancy and the suicide of a man very close to the speaker’s family, evokes with powerful images and unadorned language a raw sense of contemporary life.
Salt-sweat & TearsPosted in Autobiography, Books, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Poetry, United Kingdom on 2009-10-25 20:35Z by Steven |
Cinnamon Press
March 2007
80 pages
21 x 14 x 0.8 cm
Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189
Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces.
Mulatto Girl
See the mulatto girl walking
down country lanes and fields, her
head held high, her skin the colour
of caramel boiling on the stove. See her smile
in the knowledge she is not the first
to walk this green and pleasant
countryside, she has history stirring within her limbs
she has Africa’s heat and England’s cold rain
pumping through her blood, her
DNA a beautiful mix of gene pools
scattered across continents. She is strong.
She show Africa in a way the English hide.
She shows an eighteenth century master’s love for slaves.
She shows a slave’s contempt.
She shows twentieth century people brave enough
to cross a line made of different tones of skin,
to love in spite of hate.
See the mulatto girl walking
down country lanes and fields, her head
held high, her quadroon baby girls
held on her hips, her hair thick and frizzed, lips
half full, there are no
white men dressing her in robes and jewels,
but see her smile, see her sway, as she walks
with her head held high.