Reporting for Romanistan

Objects of love

Rosaleen McDonagh on her devastating visit to the Nazi death camp at Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany in 2022.  Blood and belonging – Traveller writers [https://writersmosaic.org.uk/category/limited-series/blood-and-belonging-traveller-writers/] is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk [https://WritersMosaic.org.uk]

Our blood

Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places: A Journey through Gypsy Britain, meditates on 'Traveller blood' and kinship.  Blood and belonging – Traveller writers [https://writersmosaic.org.uk/category/limited-series/blood-and-belonging-traveller-writers/] is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk [https://WritersMosaic.org.uk]

Reporting for Romanistan

Romani journalist, producer and film maker Jake Bowers recommends films and videos that he admires about travellers.  Blood and belonging – Traveller writers [https://writersmosaic.org.uk/category/limited-series/blood-and-belonging-traveller-writers/] is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk [https://WritersMosaic.org.uk]

Chicken blood

A lyric essay by poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Northumbria Uni Jo Clement, placing her Traveller ethnicity in Northeast England.  Blood and belonging – Traveller writers [https://writersmosaic.org.uk/category/limited-series/blood-and-belonging-traveller-writers/] is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk [https://WritersMosaic.org.uk]

I belong to both worlds

Raine Geoghegan, a poet of Romany, Welsh and Irish ethnicity and author of The Talking Stick: O Pookering Kosh, remembers her early childhood after the death of her father.  Blood and belonging – Traveller writers [https://writersmosaic.org.uk/category/limited-series/blood-and-belonging-traveller-writers/] is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk [https://WritersMosaic.org.uk]