State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation Spanish poetry I Want My Face BackÂ

I Want My Face Back (2009) and The Insomnia Poems (2017)

’ ('Barbara')

Diane Dobson

in which a My Little Pony is mutilated for art’s sake and a plate of mashed potato epitomises domestic drift

State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation Spanish poetry I Want My Face BackÂHow do we think of ourselves as poets? How does our race, our home(s), and our cultural heritage, shape our sense of belonging, our ways of seeing or experiencing the world? How can we learn from and offer support to each other? State of Play brings together conversations between an international line up of poets, taking place over the course of a year, to offer rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate