Poem 02

Listen to Giovanna reading Poem 02

Giovanna is The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Poet in Residence in 2025. Giovanna was an actor, and a journalist, and is now a poet and creative facilitator. Her poem Silenced by My Mother’s Tongue has recently been included in the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems list. Giovanna has been Poet in Residence for the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at University of Dundee and is part of the creative team working on Scotland’s Remembering Together Covid Memorial project. Her first collection, How the Heart can Falter, is available from The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing.

One poem is being published here each month. At the end of the year the poems will be brought together in a publication by The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing.