Blue Sheila | Serena Braida

Serena Braida is a bilingual poet, writer, performer and voice practitioner based in London. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Hotel, Orlando, Disclaimer, hotdog, Nuovi Argomenti and others, in Italian narrative non-fiction anthology Quello che hai amato (UTET 2015) and in Wretched Strangers, an anthology around themes of citizenship, borders, migration and melancholy by Boiler House Press (June 2018). Performances and readings have included Goldsmiths LitLive, the Festival of Italian Literature in London, the European Poetry Festival, the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room and Muscovado (Burnt Out Theatre). Serena co-curates the Locomotrix literary series at Housmans Radical Bookshop.   CHORUS:Sheila was given it all. cake and continental philosophy she was fed, taught, shown two wings like those of a great eagle, shown Greece and how to drink from your palms, madeto touch peaches and the ocean. Sheila’s sad, infuriating eyes.