What We Leave We Carry

Clementine E Burnley

by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Clementine E Burnley reflects on why she wants her money back from the British romantic novelists she read in her youth in Cameroon.

Snežana Ćurčić

by Snežana Ċurčić

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

Marjorie Lotfi

by 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

by Maria Jastrzębska

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

Colin Grant

by 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.