Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s first collection, Sing me down from the dark, was published by SALT in 2022. Widely published in magazines and anthologies, she teaches creative writing workshops for The Writing School, The Writing Well and the International Foundation programme in humanities at Newcastle University. Online, her poems can be read in Anthropocene, The High Window and London Grip. She lived in Japan for ten years. You can find Alexandra on social media @CorrinTachibana (X) and @corrintachibanapoetry (Instagram).
1 How does the poem suggest that the speaker is an outsider, who will ‘never truly enter’ her mother-in-law’s culture?
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