On Wednesday 13 November, we launched from our hands to yours: poems by ESOL students at Mana College Porirua.

We celebrated this book with some of the student writers in the collection and their families, and with staff from Mana College. Some students read their poems, and they launched it in style with poppers! We’re all very proud of this book. It’s been five years in the making – five years of poetry workshops with successive ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes, and now it’s out there in the world. It comes with notes and exercises for teachers, which can be found on this website under Resources.

Hanadi and Ahmed Al Bakhas at the launch of from our hands to yours. The brother and sister both have poems in the book