Migration and Memory
Sun 15 Nov · 12:55
The Pleasance Edinburgh
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Migration and Memory is scheduled for 15 November 2026 at The Pleasance Edinburgh. This double bill showcases poets Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, both winners of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize, who will explore themes of migration and memory in their debut collections.
This double bill showcases Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, two joint winners of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize, whose wide-ranging debut collections are newly out with Bloodaxe. In Even the Trees, shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, Roshni asks what can be seen, named or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory. In Belling the Leopard, Clementine asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. Criss-crossing the Atlantic, her poems see the voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast mingle with those of west African recaptives, German missionaries, and kidnappers. Chaired by Arusa Qureshi
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Migration and Memory takes place on Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 12:55.
Migration and Memory is held at The Pleasance Edinburgh in Edinburgh (60 Pleasance, Edinburgh South EH8 9TJ).
The forecast for Migration and Memory is Overcast · 8°C.
Yes — hotels within walking distance of The Pleasance Edinburgh can be compared using the accommodation search further down this page.
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Migration and Memory is scheduled for 15 November 2026 at The Pleasance Edinburgh. This double bill showcases poets Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, both winners of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize, who will explore themes of migration and memory in their debut collections.
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This double bill showcases Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, two joint winners of the 2024 James Berry Poetry Prize, whose wide-ranging debut collections are newly out with Bloodaxe. In Even the Trees, shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, Roshni asks what can be seen, named or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory. In Belling the Leopard, Clementine asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. Criss-crossing the Atlantic, her poems see the voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast mingle with those of west African recaptives, German missionaries, and kidnappers. Chaired by Arusa Qureshi
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Migration and Memory takes place on Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 12:55.
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Migration and Memory is held at The Pleasance Edinburgh in Edinburgh (60 Pleasance, Edinburgh South EH8 9TJ).
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The forecast for Migration and Memory is Overcast · 8°C.
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