Louisa Adjoa Parker Poetry

Louisa Adjoa Parker is an English-Ghanaian poet, writer, and equity consultant whose work centers on identity, rural racism, and marginalised voices. Living in Southwest England, she explores themes of grief, nature, home, and belonging. Her poetry and prose reflect lived experience and seek to inspire societal understanding and change.

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The Jewellery Maker

‘The Jewellery Maker’ by Louisa Adjoa Parker is a poem telling of a jewellery maker, his craft, and why he does it.

'The Jewellery Maker,' despite being one of Louisa Adjoa Parker's simpler poems is still quite popular amongst the heavier poems dealing with the times Parker faced racism in her youth. Perhaps it is popular for this very reason, being lighter in theme than more of the works for which she is known.

Each day after sunrise he walks to the workshop-
like his father before him, and his father too –
the slap of sandalled feet on heat-baked stone,
the smell of blossom, a plate-blue sky. He greets

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