Colonial Countryside Criticism Karen Onojaife’s story is set

Karen Onojaife’s story is set in Charlecote Park where a once-favoured Black page finds himself cut adrift

and this’ – referring to an earlier edition of this book – ‘is the true body of his work’

breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land

offering the same sense of humour

Colonial Countryside Criticism Karen Onojaife’s story is setColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each