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Carol Rumens

The Emigrée is about a city she made up, so it could be any city anyone has lost.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Carol Rumens, in the order they happen.

I am branded by an impression of sunlight

Rumens · The Emigrée · memory · identity

She left her city as a child. Her memory of it is all sunlight. It is stamped on her.

There once was a country

Rumens · The Emigrée · memory · identity · loss

The first words. Like a fairy tale. The country she remembers may not exist any more.

They accuse me of absence, they circle me

Rumens · The Emigrée · identity · conflict

The new place blames her for leaving the old one. Her city stands behind her.

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