Poet Jenny Mitchell: mumâs the words
Jenny Mitchell explains how she came to write the poem When My Mother Says Jamaica, which won the first Folklore Prize set up by Hampstead poet Martin Connolly
11 March, 2021 â By Jenny Mitchell
Jenny Mitchell. Photo: Billy Grant
I WROTE the poem
When My Mother Says Jamaica in order to describe the legacies of British transatlantic enslavement on one family. In my latest collection, Map of a Plantation, I suggest that this emotive history does not simply belong to black people but is shared by everyone in the UK. After all, black people did not enslave themselves in the Caribbean.
‘Punk’ vicar to play Coast church hall fundraiser
Rocking in the aisles – Josh Jones will bring classic hits to St Chads.
St Chads Anglican church will be rocking on Saturday, March 6 when punk singer turned priest Josh Jones brings his band, Secret Chords, to the Hibiscus Coast for the first time.
Josh is the vicar at St George’s in Epsom, but in a past life was lead singer with UK punk/new wave band The Quads.
The Birmingham-based group was a favourite of legendary BBC DJ John Peel, who chose their 1979 song, There Must Be Thousands, as his single of the decade, and it remained one of his favourite tracks until his death in 2004.