Question

essay for All whom I welcome leave by debjani chatterjee​

Answer 1

Answer:

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Answer 2

I lived in many countries and thrived on the poetry and stories of diverse cultures. Ambitious to be a writer, I had poems and stories published in the children’s section of Hong Kong Sunday newspapers and in magazines like Bharat Ratna. I won a Shankar’s International Children’s Poetry Competition.

My parents were supportive, but insisted that writing was just a hobby. I studied Literature and Religion at universities in Cairo, Canterbury and Lancaster. After completing a PhD, I experienced ‘proper’ jobs in: industry, education, community relations and the voluntary sector. Voluntary work and writing are my life’s staples. I became a full-time writer around 1997. To date, I have written over sixty books.

Passionate about education, I chaired the National Association of Writers in Education. My interest in community writing led me to produce bilingual books like Who Cares? Reminiscences of Yemeni Carers (Sheffield Carers Centre). Writing for wellbeing is another special interest: I write for The Colour of Health and support mental health charities like Survivors’ Poetry and Hyphen-21.

The only time I could not write was the year following my first cancer diagnosis (2007), a year that scarred me with physical and mental disabilities, including: neuropathy, osteoporosis, restricted mobility in both arms, post-traumatic stress and an unmanageable phobia. In 2010 I set up The Healing Word support group for cancer survivors and carers. Writing, storytelling and art therapies loom large in my life.

In this selection, I offer mainly recent work, ‘What I Did Today’, ‘Just Middling’ and ‘Recognition’ from my latest collection, Do You Hear the Storm Sing? (Core Publications, 2014). There is one translation: Nazrul Islam’s ‘Eid Mubarak! Eid Congratulations!’ that I included in an anthology I co-edited with my husband Brian D’Arcy – Let’s Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books).