Homelands by Eric Ngalle Charles Kwame Dawes finds the seeds of a

finds the seeds of a new half-crown of sonnets in a line of Catullus

not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience

000 civilians buried in mass graces

His haunting

Homelands by Eric Ngalle Charles Kwame Dawes finds the seeds of aIn Homelands, his debut collection, Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffickers, and finding a new home in Wales. Rich in tone, subject and emotion, Charles poetry moves between the present and the past, between Africa and Europe, and between despair and hope. It discovers that historical injustices now play out in new forms, and that family tensions are as strong as the