This Sundered Land is my response to seeing the hanging of St George’s Cross flags in public places in England, a practice presented as patriotic, but controversial for association with anti-immigration nationalism. it started as an exploration of the complexity of place and identity. There was irony in the adopted symbol of Englishness ,St George, also being a historical figure, George of Lydda, born in Anatolia of Palestinian and Syrian parents, who was persecuted for his

I was having a good day with a trip out and a good book to read. As a child of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent who now finds...