Dorothy Irenosen Okojie It is now a form

It is now a form that has evolved to mine emotion within a guiding format that

and which might in the past have invited censure and punishment

Andrew Salkey

and the intellectual honesty

Forty-five years ago Eduardo Embry came from ‘the England of South America’ to a country  green as a crocodile

Dorothy Irenosen Okojie It is now a formOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where