Island Writings

This suite of essays, brought together by the Commonwealth Foundation, gathers four voices from four islands—each drawn, in their own way, to the restless dance between the corporeal and the ancestral. Their essays construct a scaffolding of thought and memory, letting us hear the echo of waves breaking on far-flung shores. Again and again, they return to the body: how it moves through space, how it is shaped by the gaze, how it might reclaim a quiet, insistent power.

The four essays in this collection were edited by Sonia Faleiro and Richard Georges as part of a mentoring programme for non-fiction writing.