‘As a storyteller, I wanted to write about Black identity’ Shirley May tells The Voice about her love of poetry and spearheading Manchester's most vibrant creative scenes by LeahMahon_
THERE’S A small corner in the north of England where smothered voices go to be heard.
Despite her vivid imagination, she’d never have guessed she’d become a poet. Or end up as the founder and creative director of Young Identity; a literature and performance arts charity that develops emerging writers and creatives. It’s sent countless young people around to perform spoken word. She watched people as they wrote and performed. Although “timid” about her new found interest, she showed what she had been working on to an actress friend of hers.
Reece Williams is a lead facilitator at the charity, but first began as another young person wanting to learn to write poetry and gain confidence in self-expression. Much like Reece, Shirley says her poetry has been heavily inspired by the complexities of Black identity. Of all the words she has read, Shirley says it’s her Caribbean heritage and her Jamaican mother that is so apparent in her poetry.
“A lot of Caribbean literature is like that. So, I try to write about the real nuances about the place. Now a lot of my ideas and thoughts about Jamaica came from my mum…”
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