Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Professor Helen Abbott
This interview was conducted on 22nd November 2017 at Kings Place by Imogen Hamilton-Jones at Baudelaire–Botanist of the Sidewalk.
This interview was conducted on 22nd November 2017 at Kings Place by Imogen Hamilton-Jones at Baudelaire–Botanist of the Sidewalk.
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
A tribute to all women murdered by violent men, Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný presents Drápa, a story of modern-day Nordic crime reimagined through Old Viking Skaldic verse, musically accompanied by members of ALDAorchestra. On a frozen January day in Reykjavik, 1988, 26-year-old Gréta Birgisdóttir was strangled to death by her husband Bragi Ólafsson. Ten years on,…
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 Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…
Poet in the City · Interview with Matthew Beaumont at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Matthew Beaumont is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the UCL Department of English. Matthew is the author of Utopia Ltd. (Haymarket, 2009), The Spectre of Utopia (Peter Lang, 2012) and Nightwalking (Verso, 2015). As well as being an…
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,…
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