‘I come from shepherd’s pie and Sunday roast, / jerk chicken and stuffed vine leaves. / I come from travelling through my taste buds but loving where I live.’ Dean Atta gets it right!

I am currently reading Dean Atta’s memoir, Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body and will blog on it later, but surely Atta is on the ball about ‘patriotism’ in his poem I Come From (read it here: Atta, D. (2019) ‘I Come From’, Feminist Dissent, 4, pp. 158-159. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n4.2019.410) . … More ‘I come from shepherd’s pie and Sunday roast, / jerk chicken and stuffed vine leaves. / I come from travelling through my taste buds but loving where I live.’ Dean Atta gets it right!

‘Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation’

Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? I have blogged before using this quotation, actually from a Canadian poet, but used on the outer wall, and as an epigram, of the Scottish Houses of Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh, as if they were the original words of Scottish author (poet, novelist and dramatist), … More ‘Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation’