by Desree | Oct 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
and we sing ‘this place ain’t for you anymore, anymore even air moves different from before, from before’ *humming* my work aunt once told me about this crowd that arrived. took homes and changed streets left people;...
by Desree | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Apex Black woman, apex Thighs and mind of thunder Grounded, solid Catches me in her stratospheric eyeline in the future sight of higher love. The mountainous everything of her So bright I can barely behold. I hide in the shade of her lashes...
by Desree | Oct 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Martin Luther King Jr’s on tour in the UK to repeat the same speech, you’ve heard but never remembered word for word. And why should you? I have a dream is painted onto enough t-shirts and baseball caps for you to get the gist. School...
by Desree | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
It didn’t make me a woman darkened school skirt pleats the pungent smell of loss this initiation a twelve year olds guide to becoming ashamed it didn’t make me weak they...
by Kate Birch | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, News
Whilst many people view the trade in enslaved people as something which took place along the so-called ‘Middle Passage’ between Africa and the Americas, between the 1650s and 1780s many hundreds of enslaved people were brought to London. Most were African although a...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured
Family Tree Health Plan Blossomy buds circulate, fervid. Scarlet inertia steams past panacea from saps as unction. Closure was mental on a cliff’s slope. Twig held to lost hope. Defensive surgery of bark heeds smoky premonition. Forced...
