Over the course of three weekly workshops participants where guided by Lead Writer Panya Banjoko and supporting writer Deborah Tyler Bennet to create a series of poetry pieces.
We explored family members or ancestors that worked within the textile trade in the cotton mills and factories of the mid 19th century and ancestors that were enslaved as part of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
We paid an interest in exploring the deep connection between working class women living in the slums of Nottingham and enslaved women in the colonial plantations to create our poems that have been collated and edited by Panya and are now available as a printed collection of poems.
Phase 1 delivery 2022
Rachel Carter
