Migration, Memory and Identity - No Place Like Home: Southampton

What does it mean to be part of a diaspora? How are our identities shaped by physical locations? Where is ‘home’ when generations move through continents over time?

Inspired by contemporary artists featured in the landscape exhibition Soulscapes (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2024) and the artwork of the South African-South Asian Kutti Collective, the workshop will provide space to explore your own connections to political geographies and the natural world through writing poetry.

Liz Amos and Susmita Bhattacharya will work with themes of memory, joy, belonging and transformation to explore experiences of land and legacy.

Free entry and suitable for 18+

Liz Amos is Black British of Jamaican heritage and writes to explore multifaceted identities. Her performance poetry has featured in event collaborations with John Hansard Gallery, ArtfulScribe and October Books, and her debut novel, 'All the Truths Between Us', was longlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022. A former lawyer, she is currently studying for an MA in Postcolonial and World Literatures at the University of Southampton.

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Susmita Bhattacharya’s novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian) was long-listed at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018. Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing) won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection and was featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She mentors underrepresented writers and is co-founder of the Write Beyond Borders Mentoring Project.

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