Carol Rumens is an English poet who is the author of fourteen collections of poems as well as works of fiction and drama. She has also completed translations. Rumens received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize and delivered lectures at the Newcastle University Lecture Series.
‘The Border Builder’ by Carol Rumens is a powerful poem about the inevitable construction of borders and how violent these areas of the world can become.
No sooner had one come down
Than he began building again.
My bricks, O my genuine bricks
Made of my genuine blood!
‘The Émigrée’ by Carol Rumens explores the nuanced relationship that emigrants have with the countries they’ve left behind, clinging to overly idealized but sincere memories as a source of enduring love for the homes they’ve been exiled from.
There once was a country... I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
for it seems I never saw it in that November
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city.
‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’ is a challenging poem which explores issues such as child labour as well as examining the myriad origins of beauty.
The children are at the loom of another world.
Their braids are oiled and black, their dresses bright.
Their assorted heights would make a melodious chime.
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