We are delighted to interview Raine Geoghegan. Raine is of mixed heritage, English-Romany, Welsh and Irish. She is a Poet, Prose Writer, Playwright, Voice Over Artist and Performance Coach. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize; Forward Prize and Best of the Net, her work has been published internationally both in print and online as well as being widely anthologized, including in Wagtail: The Roma Women’s Poetry Anthology. She is the Romani Script Consultant for the musical ‘For Tonight’. Her first full collection, The Talking Stick, will be published soon with Salmon Poetry Press.

You can find her work by going to https://www.rainegeoghegan.co.uk/ or following her at @RaineGeoghegan5 on Twitter and @rainegeoghegan on Instagram.

Romani crushes for this episode include Dr. Émilie Herbert-Pontonnier, creator of Romani Herstory @romani.herstory, Mike Doherty @mike.doherty.5268 and Lisa Smith @lisa_mezzy of Traveller's Times, Lucy Hetherington and Suzanna King of Friends Families, and Travellers, and Isaac Blake @isaacblake1979 of Romani Arts. 

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Romanistan is hosted by Jessica Reidy and Paulina Verminski

Conceived of by Paulina Verminski

Edited by Cherub

With Music by Viktor Pachas

And Artwork by Elijah Vardo

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