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Folding a River is a sweeping poetic testament to migration, memory and the fragile work of hope. In this powerful new collection, Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé draw on years of intercultural practice, peace-building and international research to create poems shaped by ceremony, humour, lament and fierce tenderness. Moving across continents and crises, they weave rivers, forests, ancestors and everyday encounters into a shared language of resilience. These poems speak to displacement and belonging, to wounds that demand tending, and to the courage required to remake community. A vital, genre-defying collection for a world in search of liberation and healing.



Table of Contents:

Introduction     10

Part I – Freedom to move

Labyrinth     14 
a guide to the traveller     16 
Obedience     19 
leopard hunter     20
What is your peace?     21 
our squinty house     23
With holding     25
second handling     25
We are freer than we believe     26
b is for black, c is for captain: alphabet-themed ­misadventures of a terribly seasick crew with stoic ­colonial disposition in unrelenting tidal waves of ­historical inadequacies     27 
The waiting     28
rukweza farmer     30 

Part II – Freedom to create

Warrior bird     34
forest songs     35
Silence     36
speaky clean     38
Wanted     39
handmade     39
There is also this to tell     40
maybe it is     42
The one I am     44
sleeping awake     46
I remember writing my first poem     48
emissions     49

Part III – Freedom to wonder

WindCalm     52
thinkwalking     53
When     54
there are things     54
At GorseBloom     55
rootikali korekt     57
Abyss     58
four fires     59
At my lips     60
i don’t need anything     61
I want to make more time for roses     63
how beautiful is life     64 

Part IV – Freedom to bear

In that garden     68
meticulous the gardener     69 
It’s time     73
show and tell     74
Star Earth     76
a breath of myst     77
Folding a river     79
running return     81 
Can you hear my river?     86 
meander     88
Crossing the Volta     90
weathering withering whethering     92
No matter how poisoned the land     94
nothing much said     96
These trees     98
musasa     100
The rotting season     101
as     103
Black in history     104
arc     106  
Great northern divers     108
leathers and smartphones     110
Beads     113
baddy lost goody     115

Part V – Freedom to praise

Wounded     118
chifumuro     119
The wolf moon – and its phases     120
kuziva mbuya huudzwa (learning comes through listening)     125 
Look!     130 
every now and again     130
A day as full as the moon     131
jenaguru     132
Poor in spirit     133
rupture     135
The HeartBeats     137
urban tears     139
The earth is covered in darkness     141
the spirit of darkness     144
Night watching     146
do hesitate to     148
Blessing     149
crannog means shama     150
At Nehanda’s tree     152
the station area     153

Epilogue – Warriors cry

We are nature: pasichigaré     158 
pasichigaré: we are nature     164

Acknowledgements     169

About the authors     172

About the Author :

Dr Tawona Sitholé is a poet, playwright, mbira musician, educator and facilitator. He is Lecturer in Creative Practice Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts (UNESCO RIELA).


Professor Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts; Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow; and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781804323939
  • Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Wild Goose Publications
  • ISBN-10: 1804323934
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2026


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