Join us in celebrating Black History Month at Stratford Library as author and poet Monica D. Brown talks about her poetry collection.
Join us in celebrating Black History Month at Stratford Library as author and poet Monica D. Brown talks about her poetry collection, Journey back to Zanzibar: Poems of self discovery. This event is part of Stratford Library’s Local Interest Coffee Mornings (find out more about them here).
Journey back to Zanzibar: Poems of self discovery
‘Journey back to Zanzibar’ is a loosely autobiographical anthology of poems of Monica D. Brown’s search for her family roots. The book contains original illustrations and photographs. The poems include evocative memories of childhood in England and Jamaica and they aim to stir, disturb and delight in equal measure.
About the author
Monica D. Brown is a Communications Coach, Media EngagementTrainer, Freelance journalist, and writer who was born in Birmingham, UK. She currently leads the Warwickshire County Record Office project, Telling our own stories.
Her Jamaican parents, Iciline and Gersham are Windrush generation citizens. She grew up in Warwickshire, Clarendon and Kingston, Jamaica. She is a graduate of: U.W.I., Mona, where she studied Mass Communication, French and Literature, Warwickshire College, University of Warwick, U.C.E./Birmingham City University, ( M.A. Distinction) and Goldsmiths University, London( Callaloo Writing Fellow, November 2013).
In 1984 she received a French government scholarship to study Television Production in Paris. Upon her return to Jamaica she became the first Television Producer/ Director of one of Jamaica’s longest running television programmes, Hill an’ Gully Ride, which is still on air. Following a full time career in national Radio broadcasting she taught Media production at University and in 2002 received a Distinguished Faculty Award from Northern Caribbean University .
Monica worked as a Teaching Fellow for the University of Birmingham and is currently a Communications/ Media Consultant through Monica Brown Training. and a freelance journalist and writer.
In 2007, the BBC selected Monica among six others across the UK, to explore their family history. The DNA test results inspired family journeys to Tanzania and Zanzibar in 2009 and 2016 in search of Tanzanian roots. Monica’s book, Journey back to Zanzibar, a loosely autobiographical anthology, traces Monica’s journey, in part, back to Zanzibar. The anthology was translated into Swahili, ‘Safari Kuelekea Tena Unguja’ in 2016 by THE LANGUAGE SHOP, N.Y. Monica is currently working on a collection of Windrush inspired short stories, ‘Going to England’.
Refreshments provided. There will be copies of Monica Browns’s book for sale at the event, but payment will be cash only.
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