The Wedding [Services]

The Wedding [Services]

by | Jul 25, 2018

For a poet – love, marriage and weddings are perhaps the most inspiring, romantic and universal subjects to write about. You can stay with the personal, but stray into the spiritual, global, life-affirming, existential. So it is with this in mind, that I thought...

Doing it wrong/doing it right [CAREER]

by | Jun 26, 2018

Have you ever been in a job that’s wrong for you, but you tell yourself it’s right? When we don’t listen to our instincts, the universe finds a way of EJECTING us, sometimes brutally, from a situation, so we can get back on track, back in alignment...
Remembering Windrush 1948 [VIDEO]

Remembering Windrush 1948 [VIDEO]

by | Jun 25, 2018

If you like this poem and would like to buy an A5 copy as a momento, copies are on sale at the Black Cultural Archives shop OR click here to purchase online. © Suzy Rowland-Rigg  ...
Windrush 48; Spirit of Windrush

Windrush 48; Spirit of Windrush

by | Jun 23, 2018

I was fortunate enough to attend the service at Westminster Abbey on 22 June to mark Windrush Day. Me and about 2,000 other folk. The steel band playing in the church by Shern Hall Methodist Youth Steel band, set the scene. The harmonic twang of pan never fails to...
SS EMPIRE WINDRUSH [Windrush Day poem]

SS EMPIRE WINDRUSH [Windrush Day poem]

by | Jun 21, 2018

Windrush 1948: Coming Home  “London, is the place for me London, this lovely city You can go to France or America,  India, Asia or Australia But you must come back, to London city.” (Calypso: Sung by Lord Kitchener) A leap into the unknown, hundreds of men, women,...