After visiting Cape Town for the first time, I wanted to mull over this experience with a poetry collection and ask: what does it mean to me to have Cape Coloured heritage? What is it like to finally understand why I look the way I do? Why was our heritage hidden from my family and I?
I want to simultaneously stand at the end of Southend Pier and at the edge of Cape Point with this collection and contemplate the strangeness of it all.
Poems will be posted on the artist's blog throughout the summer. The project will end in a zine purchasable online.
About the organiser
Rachel Gambling is a writer from Southend-on-Sea. Her poetry has been featured in T’Art and Kamena, and she writes film criticism on her website www.girlblog.co.uk. As a third-generation South African immigrant, bisexual, and the daughter of a vicar, she is interested investigating the liminality of her existence. She is also incredibly self-aware of how pretentious that sounds. She finished her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing during the pandemic, and completed her PGDip in History just after. She now works full-time as a sex educator. You can follow her on socials @gambling.addicted99
www.girlblog.co.uk
Image: Rachel in Cape Town, South Africa
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