Context

• Author of "My Mother's Kitchen"

  Choman Hardi
• "My Mother's Kitchen" - Form


  Anecdotal and free verse
• Choman Hardi


  • Born in Iraqi-Kurdistan but moved to England after growing up in Iran and Turkey.
  • Her poetry shows the struggles she experienced as a refugee.
• "My Mother's Kitchen"


  • Shows a mother's experience of being displaced due to war.
  • She finally gets to return home and leaves some of her items to her daughter.
  • Shows the mothers love for nature and how important it is to her.
  • Tone of sadness that she has had to rebuild her life so many times.