Abecedarian for Higher Education A news account some years ago said several Bereaved parents formed a group, Commissioned a report into student Deaths. Why so many suicides ... Continue reading
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Image above by Chad MCail Abecedarian for Higher Education A news account some years ago said several Bereaved parents formed a group,Commissioned a report into studentDeaths. Why... Continue reading
This poem was commissioned by Culture Matters as an act of solidarity with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (above) who has recently suffered racist abuse for having the audacity to... Continue reading
Miss Una Marson Speaks by Jenny Mitchell Call me glutton as I gorged on every English word – a book-mad child in Santa Cruz, Jamaica – my... Continue reading
Disturbing Blacks in Custody by Jenny Mitchell One by one, I free them from the cells,trudging back to pick up bodies in torn clothes, placed screaming in... Continue reading
The Day Mr Zephaniah Died after Frank O’Hara by Jenny Mitchell On the seventh day of the twelfth month 2023, at the National Maritime Museum, a minute... Continue reading
A Greater Loss by Jenny Mitchell The first report is of a dozen migrants – eight men, three women and a child battered on the rocks, boat... Continue reading
Below is the last of the four new poems by Jenny Mitchell to mark Black History Month. For some background to the poem, see here and here. The Queen... Continue reading
Plantation Yard to Council Flat by Jenny Mitchell Once there was a slaving house battered by the sun, rays like golden fists, blood oozing through the floors,... Continue reading
Black Hair by Jenny Mitchell Entering the gallery, you’ll see it in a case, dark strands gathered close, size of a fist,taken from a Negroid head. Long-denigrated... Continue reading
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