A community of poets and activists: Steve Brock launches ‘The dilemma of writing a poem’ by Juan Garrido-Salgado
As a political refugee, Garrido-Salgado is essentially a travelling poet, and his suitcase of words creates and reimagines home through the act of writing a poem. The dilemma of writing a poem is considered from many angles, including the key concern that the dual tools of his trade, Spanish and English, are the language of the coloniser.