Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Chardine Taylor Stone

Byadmin April 15, 2019September 20, 2024

Poet in the City · Interview with Chardine Taylor Stone at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event

Chardine Taylor Stone is an award winning cultural producer Black feminist activist and writer. She was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the Women Who Rocked the World in 2015, Diva Magazine’s LGBT Power List 2016 and Buzzfeed’s ‘The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016‘. A regular on the Pride Power List, in May 2017 Chardine won the British LGBT Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to LGBT+ life’. In 2018 she was nominated by Diva Awards for LGBT Activist/Campaigner of the Year and has again been nominated by Diva Awards in 2020 for “Unsung Hero”. A committed trade unionist she is vice-chair of the Musician’s Union Equalities Committee and newly elected member of the London Regional Committee.

Chardine is also a newly appointed trustee of London Black Women’s Project, a specialist and dedicated organisation for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women and girls who have experienced violence and abuse.

This interview was conducted on 15 April 2019 at Wilton’s Music Hall by Julija Gulbinovic at Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider.

Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Erica Wagner

Byadmin September 24, 2019September 20, 2024

Poet in the City · Interview with Erica Wagner at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Born in New York, Erica moved to London in the 80’s to live and study. She is a former Literary Editor at The Times and her first book was a collection of short stories,…

Episode 2: Poetry and the Election

Byadmin April 10, 2015September 20, 2024

Featuring Hollie McNish, Helen Mort, and Edith Hall.

Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Mona Arshi

Byadmin September 24, 2019September 20, 2024

Poet in the City · Interview with Mona Arshi at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her poems and…

2021 | Commissioned Poetry | Pandemic | Wilton's Music Hall

Of Partings & Preludes – Momtaza Mehri

Byadmin May 4, 2021September 20, 2024

Part of “A drop of hope”, a collection of poetry inspired by the words of those who have been vaccinated at the Francis Crick Institute, the reflections of vaccination volunteers, and the experiences of local communities

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If They Come For Us – Sandeep Parmar

Byadmin February 21, 2019September 20, 2024

Spirit de la Mare interviews Sandeep Parmar at Poet in the City’s Fatimah Asghar – If They Come For Us event

Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Emilie Morin

Byadmin February 17, 2020September 20, 2024

Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020_(2)_-_Emilie_Moran.mp3 Emilie Morin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She specialises in modern British and Irish literature, theatre history and forms of political writing. She has published widely in these fields including writing the books: Beckett’s Political Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Samuel Beckett…