Khadijah Ibrahiim's poem "Union Jack" has been selected as this week's Poem of the Week in the Yorkshire Times. The poem is from her debut collection, Another Crossing.
"Khadijah Ibrahiim’s poem of identity, institutionalised racism and division is as relevant now as it was in the wake of Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. And if we pride ourselves on our multicultural enlightenment, the cracks begin to show when dark events unfolding elsewhere hold up a mirror to our own deep-rooted antipathies, and open the closet of our nastiest proclivities," writes Steve Whitaker, in his analysis of the poem.
