ISBN: 9781913437527

Price: £10.99

Publication date: 26^th January 2023

Format: Paperback

Extent: 72pp

DCF: Poetry Collections

Cover artwork by Zarina

After All We Have Travelled, the debut poetry collection by Sarala Estruch, is a distinctive journey across time, continents and cultures, through memory and generations of family history, exploring the long legacies of empire and its personal and political effects. It is a story of intergenerational grief, vulnerability and disconnection, as well as the enduring powers of love, connection, and embarking into motherhood.

Estruch’s illuminating poems explore the losses incurred by forbidden interracial and intercultural marriage, and is a potent reclamation of voice, story, and mixed-race identity. Equally courageous and formally bold, this is a compelling collection of lyric poems that address how we risk vulnerability and loss in order to connect with others – and the self.

About the author:

Sarala Estruch is a British writer, poet, and researcher. After All We Have Travelled is her debut full-length poetry collection. Her pamphlet Say (flipped eye, 2021) was a Poetry School Book of The Year and was described as an ‘extraordinary debut’ by the Poetry Book Society. A finalist of the Primers mentorship scheme and a fellow of the Ledbury Poetry Critics programme, her poetry, creative non-fiction, and reviews have been widely published in outlets including The Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and The Guardian, and featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. Sarala is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Liverpool, where she is a recipient of the JIC Davies Studentship. She lives in London.