Yeah, But Where Are You Really From
LITERATURE | TALK
Yeah, But Where Are You Really From
Marguerite Penrose in conversation with Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Fri 08 July | 3pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Fri 08 July | 3pm
Duration:
70 minutes
Event Categories:
Literature | Talk
Admission:
€10
Venue:
The Yeats Building
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Marguerite Penrose’s is a remarkable story of making a great life from complicated beginnings.
Born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father, with severe scoliosis and a future of difficult medical procedures; she was a little girl who needed a break. And she got it at aged three when she was fostered by a loving family.
Growing up, Marguerite’s appearance was sometimes remarked on by strangers, but it wasn’t until her teens that she understood that to be Black and Irish was a provocation for some.
Marguerite writes about asking herself some big questions – Who am I? How do I live in world made for people with bodies different to mine? Why does anyone care about my skin colour? – and facing the answers with courage, common sense and indeed humour.
Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? is her first book.
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a Dublin-based writer, performer, and cultural consultant from India. Her work has been published in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets and Local Wonders from Dedalus Press, the Irish Chair of Poetry’s Hold Open the Door anthology, Queering the Green by Lifeboat Press, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman, and Poetry Ireland Review, amongst others. Chandrika has been selected for the Irish Writers Centre’s XBorders programme twice, and in 2021 was a Poetry Ireland’s Introductions poet and a Science Gallery Dublin’s Rapid Residency Artist.