We are so old in that minute
cave dwellers
without sun, hope
tumbled onto a planet strange
umbilical cut
our bodies painted black
absence of colour, light, heat.
We are naked
equal with the birds
God may call our name
we may respond
our minds scrambled with disbelief.
Then light returns swifter than dawn
I see my son
looking like my son
and the Earth
looking like the Earth.
Tears dry on my skin.
My story is, 'Samir Hakkim's Healthy Eating Diary'. The Anthology was shortlisted for UKLA Award 2008
It took me a while to find writers who could bring alive the experience of being an asylum-seeker, but I did it in the end. (The stories) are fiction but they're grounded in reaity. Some of the writers have been asylum-seekers, while others have worked with people who have been in that position.
Tony Bradman, Editor, Give me Shelter.
A seriously important book.
Books for Keeps.
My story is, TOMMO AND THE BIKE TRAIN
This book consists of eight short stories by different established authors on climate change. Each of the stories...bring issues alive and make them personal in the way only fiction can....and they often offer hope as the children portrayed take action to make changes.... an insight into the art of story telling.
Writeaway review 2010.
Peppermint Ward, a story of children with cancer.
This book shows what happens in a hospital in a simple matter of fact way. It's honest but very reassuring. It should be very comforting and helpful to all children in this situation.
Praise from Jacqueline Wilson, Children's Laureate, 2005-07
Secret Territory : a quest for a homeland.
Definitely one to read
Spectrum Radio
Eve's feeling for rain is a good as Smilla's feeling for snow
Citron Reader.
print version