Change The Word Sheffield: The Words We Carry
An anthology of unique voices from Sheffield’s new poetry collective.
As you journey through The Words We Carry, you will find a path strewn with poems that are vital, questioning and intimate. These words reignite the lost language of childhood, they clamber over mountains and cross rough seas, they glitter with the lights of the city of steel.Playing with language, memory and what it means to be ‘home’, this collection is rooted in Sheffield and bursts with bold new voices from around the world.
“My city was dark to me
when I first arrived,
now it is light”
Sabira Abdullahi
An anthology of unique voices from Sheffield’s new poetry collective.
As you journey through The Words We Carry, you will find a path strewn with poems that are vital, questioning and intimate. These words reignite the lost language of childhood, they clamber over mountains and cross rough seas, they glitter with the lights of the city of steel.Playing with language, memory and what it means to be ‘home’, this collection is rooted in Sheffield and bursts with bold new voices from around the world.
“My city was dark to me
when I first arrived,
now it is light”
Sabira Abdullahi
An anthology of unique voices from Sheffield’s new poetry collective.
As you journey through The Words We Carry, you will find a path strewn with poems that are vital, questioning and intimate. These words reignite the lost language of childhood, they clamber over mountains and cross rough seas, they glitter with the lights of the city of steel.Playing with language, memory and what it means to be ‘home’, this collection is rooted in Sheffield and bursts with bold new voices from around the world.
“My city was dark to me
when I first arrived,
now it is light”
Sabira Abdullahi
