Mother of Flip-flops Ahmed Alaidy James Simmons

James Simmons

Adapting to the harsh realities of his Nechells upbringing – the drugs

I was eight

Also poems by Brecht on exile

Mother of Flip-flops Ahmed Alaidy James SimmonsMukahang Limbu's reputation as a key voice in a new generation of poets has been gathering momentum across a number of years, and its brilliance is captured here in his debut publication. Mother of Flip Flops is a queering of migrant experience, a love song to the mother, a celebration and questioning of the self. Defiant and shifting, these poems articulate a unique coming of age, and what it means to do so with a heightened exchange of empathy.