Which is why while sometimes it might take travelling the world to “find yourself”, you find that you’d been inside of yourself all along. Home is knowing we always have somewhere to run to, and we’ll be just fine, because home is within us. They travelled to document and respond to the many manifestations of black British culture, and to present an alternative to media narratives. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize and the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, as well as being commended by the Forward Poetry Prize.

In 2021, acclaimed poet Roger Robinson and award-winning author and photographer Johny Pitts drove around the UK coast to find out what it is like to be black in Britain today if you live outside the urban metropolitan centres. A journey around the UK coast with a poet and a photographer has produced a beautiful and in depth meditation on Black Britishness. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for King Midas Sound and has also recorded solo albums with Jahtari Records. The exhibition Home is Not a Place presents Pitts’ photographs from this journey within an installation divided into two parts for Stills’ gallery space.I could go on and on, but the long and short of it is, I believe home can be anywhere, even on the road, on your way to nowhere or to anywhere.

Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography, poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black Britishness – its complexity, strength and resilience – at the start of a new decade. While I may be at my home in Florida, the feeling I get when I watch the sun go down is a feeling of tranquility, and that to me is what home really is. It fosters ideas of multicultural ‘conviviality’ as written about by Black British sociologist Paul Gilroy and presented by the works about Black British homes of artists such as Michael McMillan and Ronan Mckenzie.Home is the families we are born into, and those we create for ourselves, be they by heart or by blood. Johny Pitts is the curator of the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award-winning online journal ‘Afropean’ and the author of ‘Afropean: Notes From Black Europe’. Come on a journey with Johny Pitts as he talks about a selection of photographs in the exhibition Home is Not a Place. This exhibition is infused with the Japanese architectural ideas of the ‘personal utopia’; a haven where one seeks respite from the difficulties of the outside world.

A couple of years ago, I remember spending some months in Europe during winter, I generally cannot stand the cold, so when I found myself feeling homesick on that trip, I wasn’t homesick for a specific place, I was homesick for African warmth and sun, any African country would have done. It’s important to be aware of how you are feeling and how your emotions shift in different environments. Late last year, I spent sometime in the United States of America, during that time, I went to Puerto Rico for a weekend. The founder of the online journal and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Mr Pitts spent more than a decade documenting the black experience in Europe.Product arrived matching the specifications I requested but also matched the photographs and item description. Pitts’ photographs in this space are also accompanied by the poem, Home Is Not A Place, by Roger Robinson. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Having a sense of what home feels like is a great guide for our souls to know when we are in alignment with paths that lead to our greatest good.

Then they continued through Margate, Dover, Brighton, Southampton, Plymouth, Land’s End, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Blackpool, Belfast, Glasgow, John O’Groats, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Scarborough, Hull, Skegness, Orford Ness and Southend-on-Sea. As soon as feelings of anxiety, worry, anger, frustration, disappointment or discomfort enter the scene, it tells me that my spirit may be trying to communicate with me. Normally I save 5 stars for books that make me cry, but the 5 stars here are for it not making me cry, rather for the intimacy in the normal displayed here.Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Running from Friday 18 November to the following Sunday 27 November 2022, Folkestone Book Festival will present a celebration of writing, reading, thinking and debate. Home is a reminder to smile, a reminder that there may be turmoil in the world, but you have a peace in you, and so you have a home. Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, the two men traced the British coast line and dipped into urban, rural and suburban Britain.