What the water gave us / Lucy Writers ; edited by Elodie Barnes and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou ; illustrations by Oscar Price.

  • Lucy Writers
Date:
2023
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About this work

Also known as

What the water gave us : essays and poetry about migration by women & non-binary writers

Description

"Sunlight on foam. Air bubbling into syllables. Tongues of fire. Tales of salt, tears and terror. these are just a few of the elements that await you in What the Water Gave Us, an exciting anthology of experimental memoir and personal poetry by women and non-binary writers from migrant backgrounds. Spanning seas and oceans, cities and countries, traversing borders and forging new geographies of feeling, our writers explore what it's like to be of migrant heritage in a para-pandemic, post-Brexit Britain. The result is a triumphant collage of voices and experiences, languages and formal experiments that plumb the depths of migrant identity and positionality today. In telling us, therefore, of what the water has and hasn't given them, they ask the reader, what does it give to you? What the Water Gave Us includes beautiful original writing from Shirley Ahura, Susan Barker, Jenny Chamarette, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Selin Genc, Denise Rose Hansen, Emma Korantema Hanson, Claire Hynes, So Mayer, Emily Midorikawa, Yen Ooi, Shamini Sriskandarajah and Robin Arjen Yigit, and features a Foreword by Editors Elodie Barnes and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou and an Afterword by Jonathan Ruppin." -- Provided by published.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom : Takeaway Press, 2023.

Physical description

144 pages : colour illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes

Lucy Writers is an inclusive online platform devoted to uplifting the critical and creative voices of women and non-binary writers run in collaboration with Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

Contents

Foreword / by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou & Elodie Barnes -- Rites of passage / Shirley Ahura -- What I feel is the fire / Jenny Chamarette -- air, yellow, and Yuan 沅 (three poems) / Yen Ooi -- 'Sorry, we could not calculate directions from Brighton to Karainagar, Sri Lanka' / Shamini Sriskandarajah -- Swimming with heavy bones / Claire Hynes -- Mixed race, mixed class / Susan Barker -- Small talk about my name / Emily Midorikawa -- In between hope gaps / Robîn Arjen Yiğit -- 'there are no Black philosophers' / Emma Korantema Hanson -- Ish / So Mayer -- High tide, landslide / Selin Genc -- Ghosts of home / Yvonne Battle-Felton -- Afterword : the past in my pocket / Jonathan Ruppin -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors' biographies.

Funding information

Produced during a year-long Arts Council England funded mentoring scheme.

Type/Technique

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