Kin – Boy carrying Young Child ©Sula Rubens RWS [Charcoal, watercolour & pigment on paper (map)]
Rising
Head against cheek,
arms holding tight,
they rise from the water
like disembodied ghosts.
No words to explain
from where they have come.
The sea is a foreign place.
Not all will escape.
Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s pamphlet with artist Sula Rubens, on a refugee theme, Sleeping Under Clouds was published by Clayhanger Press April 2023. In 2020, Dempsey and Windle published ‘A City Waking Up’, a pamphlet of poems about Sudan. https://suewallaceshaddad.
Since graduating from Central/St. Martin’s School of Art in 1989, Sula Rubens RWS has practised as a painter and printmaker. She has lived, worked and exhibited in many countries, sometimes collaborating with artists, poets and musicians nationally and internationally. http://www.sularubens.com