Raine Geoghegan, Fióna Bolger
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“This is a book shaped by the bonds of kinship—the joy of authentic connection and the grief of sustained loss. By giving voice to memory and traditio
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n, and by mourning and celebrating those who have gone before, these works explore ideas of belonging across time, even when they are speaking from places of pain and discrimination. In their rich and varied forms, they reveal what it is like to be ‘misplaced bodies in a misplaced city’ and yet to refuse to be silenced. It is impossible not to be carried to new worlds by this book, and to be transformed by the energies of its language.”
Lucy Collins
Associate Professor, University College Dublin
“KIN is a trail-blazing, diverse anthology of poetry and prose writings and artworks by roughly fifty women writers and artists from Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Communities with a most helpful editorial note by Raine Geoghegan and an enlightening introduction by Dr Rosaleen McDonagh. The editors and Salmon Poetry have done an invaluable job gathering the material for this book from contributors who are dispersed to places as far apart as Europe, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Europe—testimony to the transnational character of this ‘non-territorial cultural nation’ (Celia Grigore). Many of them are prize-winning poets, novelists and short story writers, academics, teachers, community workers and activists, taking to the page with confidence and stated pride in their Romani or Traveller origin, producing works of dazzling literary and artistic standard, thereby challenging stereotypical narratives that have been imposed on them.”
Eva Bourke
Poet and member of Aos Dána
“This is a book that bears witness to the intensity of experience shared by Romani communities worldwide—a glorious anthology which is both deep and mysterious, brimming with joy and sorrow as it celebrates a world and a way of life that has become marginalised—recapturing its passion and uniqueness. A book to treasure and to hold tight, mighty and kushti.”
Menna Elfyn
Welsh Poet, Bardd, Professor Emerita, UWTSD, President Wales PEN Cymru
“Romany and Traveller voices can often be overlooked. KIN is a long overdue collection of insightful and personal poetry that goes some way to collating the female experience of nomadic ethnicities both historically and in the present day.”
John-Henry Phillips
Author, filmmaker, and television presenter
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