Born in a Second Language 2024 books poet and executive director of

poet and executive director of TruArtSpeaks

Artistically and linguistically dynamic

In poems that ache and dazzle

rhythmic and forlorn

moving collection

Born in a Second Language 2024 books poet and executive director ofAkosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedie, 2021 WINNER, 2019 Button Poetry Prize. Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, ones body, music, mother, mother tongue etc. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie Hwedies