Grandma’s Story Alex Hubbard introduced her to a dazzling

introduced her to a dazzling new world and watched her flourish – but perhaps she’d done her job too well…

including 'freak shows' and circuses

I taste salt of your absence”

New and selected Poems by Chris Searle

and – yes – astonished

Grandma’s Story Alex Hubbard introduced her to a dazzlingThe storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on, not only the stories but transmission itself: what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed. In contrast to the idea that a story is just a story, pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh ha recodes ideas about