Brum Radio Poets May 2021 with Rick Sanders (31/05/2021)

On Brum Radio Poets this month:

Writers Without Borders
The immediate idea for the group came from a performance of a refugee writers group from London, who performed in the theatre of Birmingham Central Library.
This was a group specifically founded to assist refugee writers – Exiled Writers Ink, which is still going strong. Several of the founder members of WWB were at this performance and in the library café afterwards discussed the creation of a similar group for the refugee writers in Birmingham.

Once established and with a stable and regular place to meet WWB quietly grew in influence and prestige. Although the initial idea might have been to outreach to refugees it was felt early on that a wider remit was needed. It soon had members whose origins were in the Caribbean, Croatia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Kurdistan, Zimbabwe and Guyana.