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Demerara - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Eliza Junor, born 1804, Demerara, died Fortrose, 1861; daughter of Hugh Junor, slave owner from the Black Isle, and an unknown mother, probably a slave, or a ‘free coloured’ woman. Died Fortrose, 1861; won a prize for penmanship at Fortrose Academy. I’ve learned my letters well – my copperplate masts and sailsflow across the page, […]

People Made Glasgow - by Kate Tough

{ Poem }

Shame in our hulls
/ why else would we drink to incoherence
/ jump on the heads of passing men
/ punch our women
/ tell our children…

Inna Calabash - by Lorna Goodison

{ Poem }

Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash

The God of Sugar (Sugar Shed, Greenock) - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

Cavernous – and empty now – / no shouts of dockers, / no barefoot women shovelling / molasses – it…

from The Corsair - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

The power of Thought—the magic of the Mind! …

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