Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Akwugo Emejulu
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Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Akwugo Emejulu

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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…

Rumi: The Universe in Ecstatic Motion – Sukina Pilgrim
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Rumi: The Universe in Ecstatic Motion – Sukina Pilgrim

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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,…

Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy?
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Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy?

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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.

Sam Sax – Lisa Luxx
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Sam Sax – Lisa Luxx

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Poet in the City · Interview with Lisa Luxx at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event Lisa Luxx is a writer, performer, essayist and activist of British Syrian heritage. Winner of the 2018 Outspoken Prize for Performance Poetry and a regular feature at major literary events across the UK and Lebanon. She’s also the author…

Sam Sax – Dr Devorah Baum
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Sam Sax – Dr Devorah Baum

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Poet in the City · Interviews with Dr. Devorah Baum at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event Dr Devorah Baum is Associate Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton. She is the author of two books, Feeling Jewish (Yale University Press) and The Jewish Joke (Profile), and co-director of the creative documentary feature film, The New…

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Dr Daniel Swift
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Dr Daniel Swift

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Poet in the City · Interview with Dr. Daniel Swift at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Dr Daniel Swift is a Senior Lecturer in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare,…

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris

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Poet in the City · Interview with Will Harris at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Will Harris is the author of Mixed-Race Superman (2018) – an essay examining resilience and self-creation, as well as a chapbook, All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. A selection…

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Helen Carr
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Helen Carr

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Poet in the City · Interview with Helen Carr at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Helen Carr is a Professor of English at Goldsmiths University. Her research is largely focused on American literature, particularly American poetry, women’s writing, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the relation between literature and anthropology. Helen is…

Celebrating the Islamic World – Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran
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Celebrating the Islamic World – Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran

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Poet in the City · Interview with Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran at Celebrating the Islamic World Saffana Monajed is a mathematician and creative. Alongside working on multicultural marketing as a 9-5, Monajed co-founded Project Ribcage, a series of interviews with muslim women proffessionals to elevate the self image of muslim women in…

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