Momtaza Mehri

Feb 25, 2024 | waterstones.com | Tom Crewe |Noreen Masud |Momtaza Mehri |Michael Magee

​ The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 WinnerIt is our great pleasure to confirm Tom Crewe as the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 for The New Life.

Oct 5, 2023 | hyphenonline.com | Momtaza Mehri

Momtaza Mehri, 29, is a Somali-British poet and essayist. She started writing as a teenager and in 2014 began to be published in literary journals and magazines, including Granta and The Poetry Review. From those beginnings, she has become a critically acclaimed writer and was named as London’s Young Poet Laureate in 2018. Mehri’s work speaks strongly to this year’s National Poetry Day theme of refuge.

Oct 5, 2023 | hyphenonline.com | Momtaza Mehri

Momtaza Mehri, 29, is a Somali-British poet and essayist. She started writing as a teenager and in 2014 began to be published in literary journals and magazines, including Granta and The Poetry Review. From those beginnings, she has become a critically acclaimed writer and was named as London’s Young Poet Laureate in 2018. Mehri’s work speaks strongly to this year’s National Poetry Day theme of refuge.

Sep 26, 2023 | morningstaronline.co.uk | Momtaza Mehri

We meet again, without fanfare. Street names introduce us to ourselves. The Blackamoor‘s Head, Blackamoor Alley, Black Boy’s Court. In this reflection, we are distorted. Our faces reveal the gashes of our separation. Dahomey, Ardra, Antigua, Spanish Town. We name this lonely truth: freedom. It crouches between us,Shaky-legged & newborn. Some run with it, this freedom of scraps & damp alleyways. They cluster in the dark,Dot the city with their clutched need. The profane mewling of hungry children.