Homelands Haifa Bitar A Literary Fiction awardee for

A Literary Fiction awardee for Spread The Word’s London Writers Awards scheme

Nia Davies

which is "the ultimate underside of

Jessica Moor

trees wriggle when walked past

Homelands Haifa Bitar A Literary Fiction awardee forHomelands is the first collection by Wales based poet Eric Ngalle Charles. Part one focuses on his childhood in the West African state of Cameroon. The poems often resound with warmth and humour, fond memories of sitting in his mothers kitchen, of making toys out of leaves. We sense the beauty of the landscape and become one of the crowd of children who follow the aunties tea plucking on plantations. We also meet some of the darker deities from the