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‘A Century Later’ by Imtiaz Dharker

‘A Portable Paradise’ by Roger Robinson

‘A Wider View’ by Seni Seneviratne

‘England in 1819’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘In a London Drawingroom’ by George Eliot

‘Like an Heiress’ by Grace Nichols

‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth

‘Name Journeys’ by Raman Mundair

‘On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria’ by James Berry

‘Shall Earth no More Inspire Thee’ by Emily Brontë

‘The Jewellery Maker’ by Louisa Adjoa Parker

‘With Birds You’re Never Lonely’ by Raymond Antrobus

'Name Journeys’ is a deeply personal and culturally layered poem that explores the speaker’s diasporic identity through the metaphor of her name. Drawing on Hindu mythology, the speaker aligns herself with figures like Rama, Sita, and Draupadi – archetypes of exile, chastity, and honour – to frame her own experience of displacement and resilience. The “journey” of her name symbolises both physical migration and the emotional transitions of growing up between cultures.

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