Now listen to what nearly takes my breath away from me and lets me nearly drop dead. After living here all these years I, as a good citizen,

Back in ’51 an English bloke come to Jamaica as a agricultural instructor. He come to St Thomas, that’s where I born and grow. I work at a

My first venture into Cultureword was inspired by a spontaneous open mic. Propelled into this creative world, I was in awe of the poetry performed by individuals from

Folk tales and reminiscences told in English and Somali by Somali women living in Manchester. Published: 1997

Why does your memory haunt me; As I try to remember the times we spent together As I try to remember the detail of your faces; Why am

One of the three chapbooks published by Mongrel Press along with The Devil’s Lunchbox by John Siddique and Sky Mountain by Tang Lin.  Includes the infamous Mongrel Manifesto

Untold Words was published by BICA-ACA Books. Taken from the book’s introduction written by Kuljit ‘Kooj’ Chuhan: Untold Words is an all too rare collection of some of

These excerpts were written by a north Manchester women who were in their seventies and nineties at the time of publication in 1985. Mary: We used to walk

Yes, reminiscence work is about history, but history with a difference[…] a life stretching back ninety years or considerably less. It can be a fleeting moment or a

Life stories from Manchester’s West Indian population. Tales from back home, the culture shock of uprooting from the rural Caribbean to Britain’s heavily industrialised urban centres. The writers