What do you do when the land you call home crumbles, and memories of it fade further, threatening to slip from the grasp of living memory?
In 1997, a violent volcanic eruption shook the Caribbean island of Montserrat to its core, and an entire population was suddenly evacuated to the UK.
Amongst the descendants of Montserrat's displaced population is poet Brandon St. Catherine.
In 2022, Brandon St Catherine wrote a poem based on a traumatic memory his mother had recalled from her childhood in Montserrat. This memory appeared to unlock a fragment of his motherland, an island Brandon has never seen for himself due to the devastating volcanic explosion of 1997 that drove nearly the entire population to flee. Through poetry, Brandon began to explore his heritage, culture, what it means to construct "home" and identity across a rift.
