From Generation to Generation: A Family History in Verse

This collection traces what survives when everything else is stripped away.

Across three generations, these poems move through fractured inheritance, contested identity, and the quiet rituals that hold a family together. A father's Judaism observed from the edge of belonging. A mother's dual inheritance, carried between traditions, languages, and faiths. And a grandmother who arrived in Scotland as a child through the Kindertransport, rebuilding a life from the remnants of one that was taken.

At the centre of it all are candles, names, and the weight of memory - not as history alone, but as something lived daily: in mezuzot kissed at doorways, in Shabbat light, in documents rediscovered, in stories half-told and fully felt.

These are poems about survival, but not only survival through suffering. They are about survival through continuation - through ritual, through family, through the stubborn insistence on keeping what others tried to erase.

What remains is not only what was lost. It is what was built in its place.