{"id":38302,"date":"2014-11-12T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38302"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:14:43","slug":"ormonde-windrushs-forgotten-forerunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38302","title":{"rendered":"Ormonde: Windrush’s Forgotten Forerunner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ormonde: Windrush’s Forgotten Forerunner<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Hannah Lowe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hercules Editions<\/a>
\n2014-11-05
\n36 pages
\n125 x 140 mm, full colour throughout
\nISBN: ISBN 978-0-9572738-2-5<\/p>\n

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Ormonde<\/em> is a chapbook<\/a> by the award-winning writer Hannah Lowe, which brings together a cycle of poems and unique personal and historical archives to chart the 1947 journey of SS Ormonde<\/a>, the first post-WW2<\/a> ship (more than a year before SS Empire Windrush<\/a>) to carry immigrants from Jamaica<\/a> to the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On board was the poet\u2019s father, R. Lowe, ready to start a new life in a new country. His daughter writes poignantly of his hopes and aspirations, of his fellow passengers, and the issues faced by immigrants arriving in Britain at the time.<\/p>\n

The book includes a foreword by the author explaining her personal quest to find out more about this forgotten ship, and her influences and process in writing the poems. An afterword by the acclaimed writer and historian Mike Phillips<\/a> puts the history of the Ormonde into the wider context of black British immigration.<\/p>\n

The chapbook is published in a limited edition of 300, and is signed by the author. A special edition, available only through our Indiegogo campaign, includes an additional signed poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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