Is Berlin the same experience in your early twenties as in your late thirties? Do ever-changing cities retain an essence? How far do we really outgrow our former selves?
These poems are a meditation on time, identity, and what happens when we return to a place – and a self – we thought we fully understood.
Rosie Driffill is a writer and psychotherapist from North Yorkshire. She has written for the Guardian, Wanderlust, the Dalesman and Therapy Today. Her memoir Suddenly, While Living, a meditation on living with a mysterious, debilitating illness, was published by Valley Press in 2021; her debut poetry pamphlet Blue-Green Algae was released in 2022. She lives in Calderdale, and splits her free time between the valleys and the moors.
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