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title: "Mapping the Light"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/mapping-the-light"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "A book-length sequence on London's immigrants, from the Irish navvies to the Windrush generation and Brexit. Shoestring Press, 2018."
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# Mapping the Light

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_Shoestring Press, 2018. 74 pages. ISBN 9781912524044._

A book-length sequence about the people who came to London to live and work, from the Irish navvies to the Windrush generation, written as Britain voted to leave the European Union.

> A work that shows both great humanity and considerable technical ambition.– Nick Cooke, [London Grip](https://londongrip.co.uk/2018/08/london-grip-poetry-review-ruth-ocallaghan/)

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