The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …
Lois Klassen
We Are Moulting Birds
This collection of sixteen poems takes the reader through some of the multiple journeys and migrations affecting Ghanaian individuals and families. Whether transient labourers with work permits, a foreign student in Ohio, a family member in Ottawa, …
Walking on Water
Water, in this selection of sixteen poems, is as impossible a foundation for identity as are migrations. The poems grapple with sorrow and anger for homes and families disrupted by the hunger that drives dangerous, and fateful, migrations. Of those …
Ghanaian Writing On Migration and Diaspora
Three poetry chapbooks are bound together in the set, Ghanaian Writing on Migration and Diaspora. Each chapbook is available by exchange or as downloadable files (by clicking on the titles below): On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana by A.B. Godfreed …
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bosque brotante, “Afterword”
July 1, 2021 - Today, on a day formerly celebrated as Canada Day, Canadians are grieving with families and communities who are dealing with recent discoveries of unmarked grave sites on the grounds of former Indian Residential Schools. The …