Guardian Poem of the Week: Highland Daunder
Honoured to have ‘Highland Daunder’, from my debut poetry collection (Time Cleaves Itself) in the Guardian newspaper, selected by Carol Rumens, as poem on the week!!
Poetry
Inheritance Reverb
A captioned video of Jeda reading ‘Inheritance Reverb’ – a poem from her debut collection, Time Cleaves Itself.
Time Cleaves Itself, Jeda Pearl’s debut poetry collection
My debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, will be published by Peepal Tree Press in July 2024!
Sleekit: Contemporary poems in the Burns stanza
An anthology of contemporary poems in the Standard Habbie form (aka Burns stanza), edited by Lou Selfridge and published by Tapsalteerie.
How Do We Talk About Knives
A new poetry anthology featuring contemporary writers in Scotland on names, language and identity; edited by Samina Chaudhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Rebecca Sharp.
PASSIONS – responses to Maud Sulter’s archive
PASSIONS is publication published by Rhubaba bringing together contributions from nine Black artists, curators and makers responding to Maud Sulter’s archive.
‘I was born’ – in two anthologies
‘I was born‘ is part of the 2020 Mixtape: Writers of Colour Audio Anthology, curated by Hannah Lavery and published by the Scottish BPOC Writers Network. It was also shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.
Acts of Observation exhibition
A poetic audio installation, pamphlet and an online captioned film of a series of five linked poems that weave themes involving the disabled BPOC body with archeoastronomy and the sublime, commissioned by Collective gallery.
BBC Scotland Big Scottish Book Club
In October 2021, I had the honour of sharing a poem with Damian Barr’s Big Scottish Book Club. I read ‘inheritance reverb‘ which is one of three poems, written as a response to Maud Sulter‘s body of work, commissioned by Rhubaba, forthcoming 2022.
15 Ways of Looking at a Tuareg Pendant – New Writing Scotland
My poem, ’15 Ways of Looking at a Tuareg Pendant’, after Raman Mundair’s ’15 Ways of Looking at a Silk Sari’ is published in The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38.