“Once in a poetry workshop we were asked to meditate on the word hope and write down the senses it evoked — the sights, smells, sounds. As I meditated, a very specific sound came to mind. It took me back to my time working at the refugee camps in Greece.” Zena Kazeme writes.

“The power of music to take me to a different place continues to astound me.” ‘Still Sun’ by Obongjayar from his debut album ‘Which Way Is Forward’?

‘Lockdown’ by Richard Hendrick. “Yes, there is fear. Yes, there is isolation. Yes, there is panic buying. Yes, there is sickness. Yes, there is even death. And that is terrible. But...”

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Arundhati Roy

“And if I speak of Paradise, then I’m speaking of my grandmother who told me to carry it always on my person, concealed, so no one else would know but me.” ‘A Portable Paradise’ by Roger Robinson.