A journey through memory, loss, and rediscovery—tracing a family's past to reclaim identity, language, and love.
Rhiya Pau is a British-born poet, performer and educator based in San Francisco. Her debut collection, Routes (Arachne Press, 2022) received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Commemorating fifty years since her family arrived in the UK, Routes chronicles the migratory history of Pau’s ancestors and navigates the conflicts of identity that arise within the East African-Indian diaspora. Rhiya won the Creative Future Writers’ Award (2021) and has been highly commended in the Forward Prize (2023) and the After The End Poetry Competition (2024). Her poems appear in Wasafiri, The Liminal Transit Review, Token Magazine, Off The Chest, and Third Space anthologies, among other places. You can follow her work on IG @rhi.write
‘These were his favourite,’ she cried.
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