Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s Once There Was Colour is a moving pamphlet of poems which looks at how the current crisis in Sudan is affecting the poet and her family. Filled with evocative images of Sudan during 'better times', Sue’s poems take you to joyful weddings, sunsets on the Nile, and family members sharing fragrant cups of tea and coffee. Her writing contrasts the bright hopefulness of these ordinary celebrations with the disarray of political turmoil and the need to flee. ‘An important read for our times’ — Marjorie Lotfi, ‘The political is made strikingly personal’ — Abeer Ameer, ‘In this beautifully crafted poetry, we see how ‘the tectonic plates’ of a life may change.’ — Kate Foley.