What We Leave We Carry

Snežana Ćurčić

Snežana Ćurčić recalls leaving Serbia and coming to the UK and reflects on its rules-based society.

Marjorie Lotfi

The poet and memoirist Marjorie Lotfi recalls fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 and how she eventually settled in Scotland where she is celebrated for her poetry

Maria Jastrzębska

Maria Jastrzębska reflects on moving from Poland to the UK as a child in the 1950s

Colin Grant

Colin Grant kicks off a new series, an oral history of migration to Britain. What We Leave Will Carry is a project that sees twelve WritersMosaic writers travel around the country recording the thoughts and voice of migrants pioneering new lives here.