BAME Poetry

“We Are Here: A BAME Poetry Anthology” This anthology gathers the voices of over sixty poets from across the British Bangladeshi and wider BAME communities, each offering a distinct lens on love, loss, resilience, and remembrance. From playful childhood scenes and whispered prayers to street-corner elegies and diasporic reckonings, these poems form a living archive of emotional truth and historical witness. Curated with spiritual and editorial care, the collection honors both the quiet and the radical—rat tales and revolution, soul connections and systemic injustice. Contributors span generations and geographies, yet their words converge in shared longing, laughter, and resistance. This is not just a book of poems. It is a testament to survival, a celebration of voice, and a call to remember what mainstream histories forget. We are here. We have always been here. And we are not done speaking.