PALEWELL PRESS

A big thank you to Vanessa James and the team at ETNA Community Centre in East Twickenham, 13 Rosslyn Road, TW1 2AR (just over the bridge from The Odeon Cinema, Richmond) for making us so welcome in their Cafe Hub. And more thanks goes to Arts Richmond for helping us share news of our new Open Mic events. Together we are harnessing the power of poetry and community to cherish the planet and challenge injustice.

Palewell Press collaborated with Qisetna and Rawanee to stage three brilliant poetry events during London's South West Festival. On 6th July we performed in the Word Tent in St George's Square Gardens. And on the 20th July we were at Victoria Library and then in the historic Moat Gardens in Pimlico. In the photo, Camilla Reeve and Malka Al-Haddad are standing in front of one of Malka's poems, "Bread". It had been transcribed onto a sheet by Juan delGado of Qisetna as part of a poetry installation at Moat Gardens. Our thanks to everyone who made these three events possible.

In the next 12 months, we plan to publish a short prose anthology about refugee journeys, emotional as well as physical, from where a person once lived to settling into a new home.

We have received some excellent pieces and have now contacted submitters to say if we would like to include their piece in the anthology. Very grateful to Esme Edwards, one of our wonderful volunteers, for helping Camilla to edit the anthology.