Beyond the Moon

<p><em>Beyond the Moon</em> is an intimate collection of poetry about enormous stigma Otherness and marginality detailing with my personal experiences as a young woman living on the cusp of two very different worlds. As a young girl growing up in the United Kingdom I was continuously made aware of my ethnic differences. The conventional Western education made no allusion to the Mauritian Muslim; I found no commonplace no companionship with another in this world no one like me.</p><p><br></p><p>Even I deceived myself with the expectation to normalise and acclimatise to the Barbie doll model. I was taught that I was not beautiful because I did not resemble this traditional model. Thus this collection of poetry materialises and communicates such experiences exploring the 'dark side of the moon'.</p><p><br></p>