{"id":3174,"date":"2020-07-08T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2020-07-08T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:46:14","slug":"alumna-adjoa-wiredu-to-publish-poetry-collection-on-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/07\/08\/alumna-adjoa-wiredu-to-publish-poetry-collection-on-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Adjoa Wiredu to publish poetry collection: &#8216;On Reflection&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Adjoa Wiredu, who studied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/209\/the-contemporary\">MA The Contemporary<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\">School of English<\/a> will publish a collection of poetry entitled <em>On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New<\/em> (Jacaranda, October 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Adjoa Wiredu is a writer from London, who currently lives in Veneto, Italy. She writes poetry, personal essays and creative non-fiction about identity. Her work explores the significance of lived experiences, in an attempt to understand who we are in the present. Her forthcoming debut poetry collection <em>On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New<\/em>, appear as fragments of everyday scenes forming a narrative of self-discovery. Vignettes accompanied by photography explore life&#8217;s contradictions, trauma, and the ways in which we navigate the fluidity of cities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I started writing this collection at Kent University, while I was still trying to make sense of my new life as a mature student&#8217;, Adjoa explains. &#8216;I wrote a few poems of my experiences in Paris where I lived for one semester, inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/EN899\">EN899 &#8211; Paris: The Residency<\/a> module. We read and discussed writers who had written about Paris, and writers who were currently writing about the city. After my MA I continued writing my fragmented short stories and finished my first draft in early 2018. It\u2019s been a challenging, encouraging experience, and I\u2019m very excited to be part of the Jacaranda 20 Black British writers to be published in 2020&#8242;.<\/p>\n<p>Adjoa&#8217;s work can also be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/birchpress.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/23\/a-taste-of-the-real-world-story-by-adjoa-wiredu-my-first-job-poetry-and-prose-series\/\">Silver Birch Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/cash-council-land-haringey-housing-clearance\/\">Gal-dem<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertroselitmag.com\/\">Desert Rose Literary Magazine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parenthesesbcn\/\">Parentheses, Barcelona<\/a>. In 2018, she engaged in a Walk and Talk research project at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-artistresidency.ch\/en\/home\">Arc Artist Residency<\/a>; she was a Writer-in-Residence at <a href=\"http:\/\/jiwarbarcelona.com\/adjoa-wiredu-writer-in-residency\/\">JIWAR Barcelona<\/a>, and a recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartofglass.org.uk\/\">Heart of Glass<\/a> professional development bursary.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Adjoa&#8217;s work can be read on Irisi Magazine&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irisi-magazine.org\/home\/adjoa-wiredu-irisi\">http:\/\/www.irisi-magazine.org\/home\/adjoa-wiredu-irisi\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information about Adjoa&#8217;s collection of poetry can be found on the publisher&#8217;s page, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/on-reflection\">https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/on-reflection\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Adjoa Wiredu, who studied MA The Contemporary in the School of English will publish a collection of poetry entitled On Reflection: Moments, Flight and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/07\/08\/alumna-adjoa-wiredu-to-publish-poetry-collection-on-reflection\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87526,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}