Jenny

“I had two poems published, Landscape of My Mother and the Matriarch Landscape. To me, it's kind of very feminine (the landscape). It’s about women, that’s my perception”

Jenny is a writer based in Brighton of mixed heritage. She grew up in Brighton and in the countries of Uganda and Tanzania. She writes poetry that captures and reflects her family’s stories and experiences in East Africa and England.

Jenny is often inspired by the Sussex coastal landscape which has long been a favourite area for her. She explores her female ancestral connections to Sussex through her writing and uses features from the land; chalk scars and hawthorn trees, as metaphors for the tangled, textured lives of women.

Her poem Matriarch was about her mother, and older women, who in Western society are often rendered invisible. Her poems speak of all that older women give, to their families, to their communities - and of the love and strength they embody; reflected in landscape.

Jenny mostly walks in the South Downs with friends, she enjoys the slow pace of conversation these walks bring, and the ability of the natural world to allow thoughts and reflections to surface...