In this unique anthology, Romani poets and writers from twenty countries address a devastating legacy of slavery, pogroms, expulsions, hangings, fire bombings andgenocide. Forty-three poems and prose extracts, most appearing in English for the first time, are arranged alongside an 800-year chronology of repression. Professor Ian Hancock's introduction traces the growth of a written literature out of an oral tradition. What emerges is a portrait of a people struggling to preserve their identity in a hostile world.

Published October 1998; 160pp; paperback

“The Roads of the Roma has taken me into a new world of great beauty, imagination and mystery. The 'invisible people' step into the light along a path of poetry” Antonia Fraser

“This anthology of the best Roma poets and writers has been sensitively compiled and ends with biographies of the authors. Excellent translations” Romano Centro