Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings Adam Wyeth From grief to bliss

From grief to bliss

It’s a reverie of times passing – ‘when peace was love/and love was free for all/who could afford it’ – a howl of mockery

the weight of dandelions invites the reader

from modern European poets

radical and brave – it uses multiple voices and forms such as memoir

Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings Adam Wyeth From grief to blissAfter World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the Mother Country. Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the considerable sum of 28. 10s to board HMT Empire Windrush the ship of dreams that would take them to their new lives. The motives and back stories of these West Indian people is a key part of the Windrush story, one that has