Folding a River is a sweeping poetic testament to migration, memory and the fragile work of hope. In this powerful new collection, Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé draw on years of intercultural practice, peace-building and international research to create poems shaped by ceremony, humour, lament and fierce tenderness. Moving across continents and crises, they weave rivers, forests, ancestors and everyday encounters into a shared language of resilience. These poems speak to displacement and belonging, to wounds that demand tending, and to the courage required to remake community. A vital, genre-defying collection for a world in search of liberation and healing.

Dr Tawona Sitholé is a poet, playwright, mbira musician, educator and facilitator. He is Lecturer in Creative Practice Education with the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts (UNESCO RIELA).

Professor Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts; Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow; and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.