This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or émigrés displaced from their cultural and geographical origins. The subjects include poet John Rety from Hungary, painter Fawzi Karim from Iraq, novelist Moris Farhi from Turkey, poet Martina Evans from Ireland, artist Ana Maria Pacheco from Brazil, actor Andrzej Borkowski from Poland, novelist Brian Chikwava from Zimbabwe, writer Hamid Ismailov and musician Razia Sultanova from Uzbekistan, poet Mimi Khalvati from Iran, filmmaker Rajan Khosa from India, and jazz bassist Coleridge Goode from Jamaica. The book concludes with an autobiographical account. Together, the chapters form a perceptive and moving enquiry into complex questions of migration, identity, and belonging as well as a tribute to the value of art and creativity in human lives.
Marius Kociejowskiis a poet, an essayist, and a travel writer. He is the author ofCoast,Doctor Honoris Causa,Music’s Bride,The Pigeon Wars of Damascus,The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey, andSo Dance the Lords of Language—Poems 1975–2001.
This series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians removed from their origins will appeal to many different customers: those curious about artists, those curious about London (and England more broadly), those curious about cities and those curious about countries all over the world.
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