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Life, Death… The Whole Damn Thing
Published 2010
Life, death… the whole damn thing is the long awaited prose anthology compiled by Commonword’s award winning Womanswrite group. Showcasing stories by members of the Tuesday workshop, the collection tackles a range of themes from love, marriage, death and dreams.
How To Weave Time
Published 2011
How To Weave Time is Anwen Lewis’ debut collection. Her poems weave an intricate and delicate tapestry illustrating the experience to adulthood of a trans-racially adopted child. The collection is both moving, insightful and surprising. “It takes great courage to … Read more
Praise Songs For Aliens
Published 2009
“Segun sees and hears the poetry in market places that are full of the youth of fruit and the age of enamel plates, serenaded by tacit melodies humming in a kerosene lamp.” Read more
The Seamstress and the Global Garment
Published 2009
“Chowdhry’s poems are uniquely alive to the possibilities of multiple identities, fused mother tongues and the interweaving of myths.” Read more
Migration Stories
Published 2010
16 tales, penned by 16 accomplished writers, weave a tapestry of contemporary migration to the UK. As the globe shrinks and modern armed conflict, natural disasters and global economic imabalances have had their impact of every nation of the world, including Britain. This anthology weaves a tapestry of these disparate voices, giving fictional and fictionalised voice to UK migrants of both recent times and the more distant past. Read more
The Hat Check Boy
Published 2007
The Hat Check Boy is a moving and tragic comedy of errors – it shows us a man against life’s ropes, clinging on for the one knock-out blow that will transform him from loser to champ. Read more