Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings Simon Patton

Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings Simon PattonAfter World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the Mother Country. Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the considerable sum of 28. 10s to board HMT Empire Windrush the ship of dreams that would take them to their new lives. The motives and back stories of these West Indian people is a key part of the Windrush story, one that has

With her job as a police officer hanging in the balance

Ní Ghríofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject

Starting at the age of fourteen

They defiantly ask us: why do the great marquees of England stand empty

Featuring poems by: Jay Bernard

Eiland berg gletsjer (Island Mountain Glacier

the other public

all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar

and even fun: a sex education lesson that backfired

But these poems do not preach or lecture

How other societies are perceived has long been a preoccupation of Stewart Brown’s own poetry and critical writing

12 Shouts began on the Vernal Equinox