Foreword

Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls

"We tell stories to find our way. We tell stories to remember. We tell stories to dream. And no matter the story, we live into what we story about others and ourselves."

Vicky Cosstick has woven a web of a good book. I read these pages once and then a second time, slowly. The reading merits the spider’s approach – forth and back, criss-crossing the same space differently each time, sort of the way Vicky wrote the book I imagine, following wall-strand stories.

Belfast has stitched itself a fine history of walls…

Lederach, John Paul. “Foreword.” In Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls, by Vicky Cosstick. Newtownards, Northern Ireland: Colourpoint House, an imprint of Blackstaff Press, 2015.

Shared with the permission of Colourpoint Creative Ltd.