Today's poem
I didn’t know such a history in Great Britain - the history of the Romani people. I knew and met only the Romani people who lived in Spain, Portugal, and Hungary. Some of them were great musicians, e.g., Django Reinhardt.
And although completely forgot it, there is a book The Traveller-Gypsies by Judith Okely on my family’s bookshelf and I recall I read it a long time ago when I met them in Europe.
After that, a poetry collection FURY by David Morley was presented to me two years ago. His collection contains poems on the Romani people.
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109905
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I didn’t know such a history in Great Britain - the history of the Romani people. I knew and met only the Romani people who lived in Spain, Portugal, and Hungary. Some of them were great musicians, e.g., Django Reinhardt.
And although completely forgot it, there is a book The Traveller-Gypsies by Judith Okely on my family’s bookshelf and I recall I read it a long time ago when I met them in Europe.
After that, a poetry collection FURY by David Morley was presented to me two years ago. His collection contains poems on the Romani people.
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109905
Now Sanka (サンカ) people as wanderers in Japan come up in my mind. Unfortunately, they could be no longer living. Even now it is shadow of Japan's history. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB
Here, I would like to introduce the poet Raine Geoghegan’s poem 'Under a Gooseberry Bush'. When I joined a poetry workshop in the UK, a British poet talked about her. The poem includes Romany vocabulary and tells a tale about her grandfather in Kent, the UK. You can enjoy her verse and photos of the Romani people. Please read and see 'Under a Gooseberry Bush' by Raine Geoghegan.
http://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/new-poetry-by-raine-geoghegan/(Note)
· Me: my
· Yer: you
· Yer: you
