Poetry Saves Lives – The Body is the Battle of our Consciousness. | Nandi Jola | TEDxStormont

When you are foreign to the land, one of the drills you learn is how to keep time, waking to check your phone then go back to sleep, in case something has happened, an earthquake, a flood or draught; this becomes our story, the Migrant Story. Nandi Jola, a poet and a Xhosa woman from e Gqeberha, a beautiful place in South Africa takes us on a journey. Nandi Jola is a South African born poet and writer. She is currently studying her MA in Poetry at Queens University Belfast. Nandi is a creative writing facilitator for Ulster University, Books Beyond Boundaries NI. Her debut poetry collection with Doire Press is due in the Spring/Summer of 2022. Her work includes 'The Journey ' a one-woman verse performance that opened the International Literature Festival Dublin in October 2020. She is representing Northern Ireland in Transpoesie Poetry Festival 2021 in Brussels with her poem Entomology. She is Poetry Ireland Ambiguities commissioned poet, a Jukebox which will tour Paris as part of the Centre Culturel Irlandais programme 2022. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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