The word ‘Windrush’ evokes both tragedy and triumph. The exuberance of arrival in 1948 is now tied up with the scandal of elderly black Britons who faced deportation decades later. Seventy-five years on the ship Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, the Royal Literary Fund’s WritersMosaic sees poets Raymond Antrobus (All the Names Given) and Hannah Lowe (The Kids), debut author Jacqueline Crooks (Fire Rush) and historian Colin Grant (I’m Black so You Don’t Have to Be) respond to the vibrant stories of Empire Windrush.
