I Am Not From Here Gemma Weekes

I Am Not From Here Gemma WeekesThis book has taken a long time writing. Amerah has long been a fundamental part of the burgeoning Birmingham poetry scene producing, mentoring, making things happen in the city. She is a wise old poetry head in the body of a young woman. She has rarely put her own incredible poetry first. And yet here it is, in book form at last. I Am Not From Here is a collection that twists and turns through the complexities of being Birmingham born but of Yemeni

The Spring 2012 issue of MPT will be largely given over to a collaboration with Poetry Parnassus – the Southbank Centre’s celebration of the 2012 London Olympics

written in an easy conversational tone

angry and compassionate

No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there

Callie Gardner

a bottle of old snow liqueur

introduced by Helen Beer

His novels are Shifts

She has conducted workshops and given readings all over Ireland and the United States for many years

Future focuses on Romania

destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available

post-modern perspective