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Borderless and Brazen – Bumi Thomas
Kate Murrant interviews Bumi Thomas at May Ayim: Borderless & Brazen, an event held as part of Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
Borderless and Brazen – Gboyega Odubanjo
Kate Murrant interviews Gboyega Odubanjo at May Ayim: Borderless and Brazen, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Moonwhile – Keisha Thompson
Jay Hepburn interviews Keisha Thompson at Moonwhile, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
A Daughter’s Geography – Belinda Zhawi
Penny Hughes interviews Belinda Zhawi of MA Moyo at A Daughter’s Geography, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
2019 | Hannah Lowe | Hillview | Past Projects
Hillview Poetic Histories
Hillview Poetic Histories is an innovative collaboration between residents of Hillview Estate and Poet in the City uncovering Hillview’s story as a self-run housing collective that survived in the face of austerity and eviction notices, influencing short life and cooperative housing movements in the UK since the 1970s.
Contemporary | Music | Poet In The City Podcast | Poet In The City Producers | Poetry &Amp; Lyrics | Poppy Noor | Producers | Sophia Thakur | Travis Alabanza
Episode 7: UN/DEFINED
Featuring Travis Alabanza, Poppy Noor and Sophia Thakur.
2019 | Afrofuturism | Jay Hepburn | Keisha Thompson | Kings Place | Mental Health | Music | Poetry &Amp; Lyrics
Moonwhile – Keisha Thompson
poetrylyricsfestival-219-moonwhile-keishathompson.mp3 Ricocheting between themes of love, masculinity, forgiveness and cultural displacement, poet Keisha Thompson’s Moonwhile is a vividly imagined Afrofuturistic performance that ripples with looped sound and sweeping waves of Neo-Soul. Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…
The Importance of Music to Girls – Lavinia Greenlaw
Jack Wright interviews Lavinia Greenlaw at The Importance of Music to Girls, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Poetica Electronica – Karen McCarthy Woolf
Billie Manning interviews Karen McCarthy Woolf at Poet in the City’s Poetica Electronica, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
2019 | Akwugo Emejulu | Audre Lorde | Feminism | Julija Gulbinovic | Lgbtq+ | Politics | Usa | Wilton's Music Hall | Women
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Akwugo Emejulu
Poet in the City · Interview with Akwugo Emejulu at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Before entering academia, Akwugo worked in a variety of grassroots roles—as a community organiser, a trade union organiser and a participatory action researcher—in both the United States and in Britain. She joined the Department of Sociology…
2019 | Audre Lorde | Bridget Minamore | Feminism | Julija Gulbinovic | Lgbtq+ | Politics | Usa | Wilton's Music Hall | Women
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Bridget Minamore
Poet in the City · Interview with Bridget Minamore at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Bridget Minamore is a writer from and based in south-east London. She has written with the National Theatre’s New Views programme and the Royal Opera House, and has an English degree from University College London….
2019 | Audre Lorde | Chardine Taylor Stone | Feminism | Julija Gulbinovic | Lgbtq+ | Politics | Usa | Wilton's Music Hall | Women
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Chardine Taylor Stone
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…
COVID-19 Update
COVID-19 update from Poet in the City.
Following guidance to avoid public gatherings during this time, we have taken the difficult but necessary decision to cancel our Spring events programme until further notice.
Collections in Verse: Leeds
Bringing the British Library’s “Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land” exhibition to life in Leeds, with poets Malika Booker, Vahni Capildeo and Khadijah Ibrahiim.
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Songs in a Strange Land
Turning the volume up on Caribbean culture in the UK, poet Khadijah Ibrahiim invites you to a Sound System symposium retracing the roots of Sound System Culture in Leeds.
Colonizin in Reverse
Leeds Libraries’ inaugural ‘Late’ event, bringing the library to life after hours through an evening of colour and creativity celebrating the explosive impact of Caribbean culture on Leeds and the UK.
Colonizin in Reverse – Collections in Verse 2019
Leeds Libraries’ inaugural ‘Late’ event, bringing the library to life after hours through an evening of colour and creativity celebrating the explosive impact of Caribbean culture on Leeds and the UK.
Journeys – Busking on Buses
Award-winning poet Vahni Capildeo hosted a poetic rhyme-and-ride as our poetry buskers made the trip on Leeds’ buses one to remember.
20 Years of Poet in the City
Poet in the City founder Rosamund McCarthy on the 20th anniversary of the launch of Poet in the City
If They Come For Us – Fatima Asghar
Spirit de la Mare interviews Fatima Asghar at Poet in the City’s Fatimah Asghar – If They Come For Us event
If They Come For Us – Sandeep Parmar
Spirit de la Mare interviews Sandeep Parmar at Poet in the City’s Fatimah Asghar – If They Come For Us event
2019 | Classic | Islam | Love | Music | Penny Hughes | Rumi | Spiritual | Sukina Pilgrim | Wilton's Music Hall
Rumi: The Universe in Ecstatic Motion – Sukina Pilgrim
Poet in the City · Interview with Sukina Pilgrim at Poet in the City’s Rumi – The Universe in Motion event Sukina Pilgrim is a Spoken-Word and Hip-Hop artist, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser. She makes up one half of the Muslim female Hip Hop duo, Poetic Pilgrimage and has performed across the UK, Europe,…
2019 | Anthony Anaxagorou | Deconstructing Empire | Imtiaz Dharker | Linton Wesley Stephens | Past Events | Poet In The City Producers | Sona Datta | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy?
A Poet in the City Producers event in collaboration with St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey exploring how colonial nostalgia shapes what it means to be British in the age of Brexit.
Time Unwrapped: Memento – Martin Suckling
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Martin Suckling at Time Unwrapped – Memento
Time Unwrapped: Memento – Francis Leviston
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Francis Leviston at Time Unwrapped – Memento