Name/TitleYonder Awa: Poetry from The Empire Café
Edition1st edition
MakerWelsh, Louise
Maker RoleEditor(s)
About this objectPaperback booklet with black cover and gold lettering titled 'Yonder Awa: Poetry from The Empire Café edited by Louise Welsh'. The publication includes two essays, 'Let us a' Flourish' by Louise Welsh and 'Glasgow and the Caribbean Commonwealth' by Stephen Mullen, 19 poems by established and emerging poets (see Subject and Association Description field below), biographies and acknowledgements.
Fully digitised (48 pages)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 235 x W: 160 x D: 4 mm
Date Made2014
Period2010s
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
PublisherThe Empire Cafe / Collective Architecture Ltd
Publication DateJuly 2014
Publication PlaceScotland, Glasgow
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.collectivearchitecture.com/projects/the-empire-cafe:
The Empire Cafe was founded by co-directors Jude Barber of Collective Architecture and author Louise Welsh. ‘Merchant City Voices’, their collaborative series of sounds works exploring Glasgow’s relationship with the North Atlantic slave trade won a 2013 Scottish Design Award. The Empire Cafe was part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme, a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and Creative Scotland through National Lottery funding. It was also supported by The British Council.
The Empire Café commissioned poems from eminent Scottish and Caribbean poets on Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade which have been published in a print anthology 'Yonder Awa' which was available free of charge when the cafe was open. Poets contributing to the anthology were Malika Booker, John Burnside, Vahni Capildeo, Jim Carruth, Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Etta Dunn, Vicki Feaver, Millicent AA Graham, Pippa Little, Aonghas MacNeacail, Richard McCafferty, Kei Miller, Kathleen O'Rourke, Sasenarine Persaud, Tanya Shirley, Dorothea Smartt and Kathrine Sowerby.
Subject and Association Keywordspoetry & verse
Subject and Association KeywordsCommonwealth Games
Subject and Association KeywordsTrade, globalism, colonialism
Subject and Association KeywordsMigration
Subject and Association Keywordsslavery, slave trade
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
ISBN/ISSN978-0-9575026-1-1
Object numberGWL-2022-21
Spine LabelYonder Awa ~ Poetry from The Empire Café ~ Edited by Louise Welsh
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved