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[kirstenirving]

JT Welsch and I, owning and being robots at York Waterstones, as part of the NxNE poetry readings series organised by Harry Man.

[andrebagoo]

IN RESPONSE to surges of violent nationalism and political paranoia around borders, and to related social and ethical crises, JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky have assembled WRETCHED STRANGERS an anthology that uses poetry to cross borders, celebrating innovative writing from around the globe, paying homage to the diversity that enriches us even as some continue to use it to divide us.

Solidarity with those marching in London. Solidarity with children in US cages, with those of the Windrush generation being denied basic rights, with those forced to appeal to a court for human dignity and equality, with wretched strangers everywhere.

Special thanks to the editors for including new work from me in this alongside poets such as Tim Atkins • Rachel Blau DuPlessis • Mary Jean Chan • Steven J Fowler • Peter Gizzi • Alex Houen • Vivek Narayanan • Alice Notley • Sandeep Parmar • Pascale Petit • Adam Piette • George Szirtes • Harriet Tarlo • David Wheatley • Jane Yeh.

[andrebagoo]

‘now the black, the cut, the red the colony dispersed by bullets I ask whose land it is’ Just in time for Republic Day 🇹🇹, my poem — ‘The Scarlet Ibis is the National Bird of Trinidad & Tobago’ — is published in WRETCHED STRANGERS, an act of solidarity; an anthology crossing borders during the time of Brexit and whose proceeds will be donated to charities fighting for the rights of refugees. My contributor’s copy arrived in the mail last week like the monolith from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, traveling through space and, perhaps, transporting us to some moment when all that will matter is not what matters now, when we will truly unite. More: https://www.instagram.com/boilerhousepress/ #books #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookstagrammer #bookshelfdecor #books📚 #bookstoread #booksbooksbooks #bookstore #bookshops #bookshop #bookstores #bookseries #bookstgram #booksigning #booksamillion #bookselfie #bookseller #booksnotforsale #bookstack #booksonbooks #bookslover #bookslut #bookshopping #bookstagramer @jtwelsch (at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoEeG1NHgM9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17nxa45qsaku8