A poetry collection by Joanna Skelt, the City of Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2013-2014. The poems are organised around a central theme: the interconnectedness of cultures and peoples. Drawing on her life in Birmingham’s multicultural communities and her time spent in Africa, Skelt reflects on the differences and commonalities of human experience, and on the beauties of place in their many manifestations. The title poem meditates on the passage of time and the human longing to ‘rejuvenate, rebuild, reinvent ourselves’. The collection embraces hope in the ‘glorious and extraordinary merging and transcending of difference’. Skelt holds a PhD in African Studies and has worked in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Uganda, and Jamaica. Internationally distributed by African Books Collective.
Connected Journeys
Author(s): African studies, Birmingham, contemporary poetry, cross-cultural writing, diaspora, Joanna Skelt, multicultural themes, poetry collection
Sh 15,000
A poetry collection by Joanna Skelt, City of Birmingham Poet Laureate 2013-2014. The poems meditate on the interconnectedness of cultures and peoples, drawing on multicultural Birmingham and the poet’s years in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Uganda, and Jamaica. Hope found in the glorious merging and transcending of difference. Skelt holds a PhD in African Studies.
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