After giving birth, Vanessa Chisakula started writing poetry as a way of processing the changes and struggles she was experiencing as a new mother. “I was in my early 20s. I had just become a mum and didn’t understand it,” she says.
“I had all these questions. What is a woman? Is this it? I didn’t know what I was supposed to be doing.” With poetry, she adds, “you can say a lot of things and it’s so therapeutic”.
Just writing poems was