Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante Edmund Blunden and what they can give

and what they can give us today

surprising narrative swerve of ‘She Was at the Haymaking’ and the mysterious wound in ‘A Journey’ to the exact detail of ‘the vessels tugging at their tether’ and the lighthouse keeper ‘watching the great revolving spokes / hitting the piled castles of spray’

the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment

’ – Pascale Petit

Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante Edmund Blunden and what they can giveThe poems in Romalyn Ante's luminous debut build a bridge between two worlds: journeying from the country 'na nagluwal sa 'yo' that gave birth to you to a new life in the United Kingdom. Steeped in the richness of Filipino folklore, and studded with Tagalog, these poems speak of the ache of assimilation and the complexities of belonging, telling the stories of generations of migrants who find exile through employment through the voices of the mothers