Reporting on Four Boys by Jenny Mitchell A cigarette. A tea-light. A motherdown the shops. Two sets of twinsleft in a house, fire spreading fastover rubbish on... Continue reading
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Photos by M. Quille of public exhibition on 4th floor of Senate House, University of London by Jenny Mitchell A suitcase snaps with joy,falls open at my... Continue reading
Emancipating Ancestors by Jenny Mitchell I’ll free them allby digging deep enoughto haul their battered bodiesfrom the years of disturbed soil. As they emerge – some dark,... Continue reading
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
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
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