PALEWELL PRESS

Roz Doe holds an MSc in Forced Migration and has been working with young refugees and asylum seekers for over 20 years. In 2004, she co-founded the charity, Young Roots, which worked with young refugees in Lebanon, Egypt and Nepal and currently provides services for young people living in London. The poems in Welcoming Blue Robins were inspired by young refugees she worked with and the pamphlet also contains poems written by and with young refugees in London. 

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So Many Unavoidable Journeys, edited Camilla Reeve and Esme Edwards, is an anthology of short prose about refugee journeys, emotional as well as physical, from where a person once lived to settling into a new home. Writing about travellers from Bhutan, Iraq, Eritrea, Iran, Bangladesh, Syria, Palestine and Russia, authors with personal knowledge help us understand how it feels to be compelled to migrate.

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The Hope We Still Hang Onto is a vivid and inspiring memoir by Arinda Ojeda Aravena of her experiences while a political prisoner during the Pinochet era. The book has been translated into English by Barbara Mitchell. Despite the fragility of human bodies subjected to inhuman degradation, Arinda’s account shows how personal strength and solidarity among the female political prisoners played a crucial part in helping them survive.

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Ahmed Zaidan is a Finnish-Iraqi refugee journalist. Mosul - Story of Hope defies stereotypes and crosses borders, venturing beyond the safety of familiar territory. The author brings together memoir, reportage and storytelling to communicate how his birthplace, Mosul in Iraq, was occupied by ISIS, and now, thanks to its heroic residents, the city is rising from the ashes of that experience. 

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The Box by Susan Jordan is a powerful novel on loss, trauma and recovery. Kate has died. Her husband Richard, their ten-year-old son Rick and her twin sister Jo are shocked and devastated. An awkward but caring relationship develops between Richard and Jo as they face their grief and Jo uncovers deeply disturbing memories from the twins' childhood. As she does so, Jo, a long-time mental health patient, begins to find hope and self-belief.

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Ron Price is an American writer known for his work exploring Southern life, family, racism, and spirituality. He has lived and worked in New York City including time as Poet in Residence and teacher at the Juilliard School. But the poems in this pamphlet collection reflect his Southern upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and have a powerful connection to nature and unseen forces.

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In ecofeminist poems written over a decade, Helen Moore illuminates the shadow realms of our society and its addictive relationship with fossil fuels. The personal is situated within the larger social/geopolitical structures that circumscribe our lives, with themes of resistance, regeneration and co-creation with non-human nature offering a beacon for these turbulent times.

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In this powerful collection, Kelly Davis examines her relationship with her reclusive father. While focusing on a particular relationship, these poems explore universal experiences – the darkness of loss, loneliness and old age, and the light of empathy, understanding and compassion. 

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