Snagged on red thread by Jazmine Linklater #poets one I shall return to

one I shall return to again and again

“women poets oppose and resist their conditions

' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future

nationalism and belonging

But whether they are refugees from war or violence

Snagged on red thread by Jazmine Linklater #poets one I shall return toSnagged on red thread is a long poem of protest, power and complicity. Jazmine Linklater articulates how the apparatus of Empire is encoded in the structures we live in: militarised sights set on schoolyards, bargaining arms deals with teenagers, surveilling civic squares, co opting institutions. And yet Snagged on red thread is compelled to march, to embroider, to bear witness.