Kin -

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Editeur : Salmon Poetry

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2026

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 192.0

ISBN : 1915022703

Résumé :

In this important anthology of poetry and art, Roma, Traveller and women of various nomadic identities are summoned to witness the stirring expressions of their sisters - bold testaments to the endurance and ingenuity of the voices of those often marginalized. It is not an anthology of protest or appeasement, rather it is women asserting and presenting their work in their very proud fashion. Here, written language, both prose and poetry, emerges as a vessel for liberation, a potent instrument wielded to dismantle the oppressive structures that seek to stifle and erase. Within these pages, the cadence of oral tradition intertwines with the harmonies of rhyme, resonating with the natural world''s rhythm and the timeless pulse of tradition.

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Sommaire:
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 tradition, 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 D?na

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...